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Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary

Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association...

Author: David Jancsics
ISBN: 9781501774324
Format: Hardback
$116.03

"""This book offers a novel sociological theory of corruption and uses it as a framework to make sense of rich ethnographic...  Read More >>

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart...

Author: Eric T. Kasper ,  Troy A. Kozma
ISBN: 9781501774515
Format: Hardback
$118.67

"""English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over...  Read More >>

To the Far North: Diary of a Russian World Traveler

To the Far North: Diary of a Russian World Traveler...

Author: Ivan Nikolaevich Akif’ëv ,  Andrew A. Gentes
ISBN: 9781501774607
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""An annotated translation of a diary written by a Russian doctor who was a physician with the 1900 Chukotka Expedition...  Read More >>

Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City

Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s...

Author: Maria Cristina Fava
ISBN: 9780252045714
Format: Hardback
$201.00

Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora

Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity...

Author: Sangmi Lee
ISBN: 9780252045769
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The Hmong diaspora radiates from Southeast Asia to include far-flung nations like the United States, New Zealand,...  Read More >>

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City...

Author: Adam J. Criblez
ISBN: 9781501773938
Format: Hardback
$84.35

"""During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the circumstances facing the New York Knicks of the National Basketball...  Read More >>

Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil War to the Great War

Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil...

Author: John Morton
ISBN: 9781682479117
Format: Hardback
$68.20

Explains how the US came to put a value on commercial opportunities overseas in support of America’s steel industry....  Read More >>

Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor

Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring...

Author: Esther Brownsmith
ISBN: 9781032192963
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor...  Read More >>

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race...

Author: Maria Angela Diaz
ISBN: 9780820366487
Format: Hardback
$303.47

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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection:...

Author: Linda Myrsiades
ISBN: 9780820366265
Format: Hardback
$303.47

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The Traitor's Son

The Traitor's Son

Author: Wendy Johnson
ISBN: 9788412595376
Format: Paperback
$55.41

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Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478025917
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage,...

Author: AnneMarie Mingo
ISBN: 9780252045653
Format: Hardback
$260.00

What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit...  Read More >>

Sofonisba Anguissola

Sofonisba Anguissola

Author: Cecilia Gamberini
ISBN: 9781848224902
Format: Hardback
$107.00

Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of...  Read More >>

The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image

The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image...

Author: Marion R. Casey
ISBN: 9781479817450
Format: Hardback
$75.99

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Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Author: Sam C. Tenorio
ISBN: 9781479828289
Format: Hardback
$193.00

"""Interrupting our political orthodoxies and engaging an alternative origin story of the modern carceral state,...  Read More >>

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish...

Author: Marjorie Feld
ISBN: 9781479829316
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American...  Read More >>

The Luzon Campaign 1945: Macarthur Returns

The Luzon Campaign 1945: Macarthur Returns

Author: Nathan N. Prefer
ISBN: 9781636244242
Format: Hardback
$85.00

The first full history of the longest island campaign of the Pacific War.  Read More >>

A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized...

Author: Shaul Kelner
ISBN: 9781479879397
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from...  Read More >>

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II...

Author: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
ISBN: 9781682477243
Format: Hardback
$77.00

Offers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their...  Read More >>

Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media

Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and...

Author: Umme Al-wazedi ,  Afrin Zeenat
ISBN: 9780815638421
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Challenges the dialogue around the veil, exploring its symbolic, religious, and cultural significance. Scholars...  Read More >>

Crony Comprador Capitalism: The Institutional Origins of China’s Rise and Decline

Crony Comprador Capitalism: The Institutional Origins...

Author: Jianyong Yue
ISBN: 9783031531538
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images

Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape...

Author: Richard Scheuerman ,  John Clement
ISBN: 9781638640288
Format: Hardback
$93.50

Enhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty...  Read More >>

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