Society & culture: general books

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Nelson and Williams' Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice

Nelson and Williams' Infectious Disease Epidemiology:...

Author: Carolyn Masters Williams ,  Emily S. Gurley
ISBN: 9781284143942
Format: Paperback
$245.81

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Ubuntu: Conversations with Francoise Blum

Ubuntu: Conversations with Francoise Blum

Author: Souleymane Bachir Diagne ,  Andrew Brown (Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9781509570904
Format: Paperback
$26.95

Ubuntu, a Bantu word that became the first term from an Indigenous language to enter a political constitution, is...  Read More >>

Consequential Museum Spaces: Representing African American History and Culture

Consequential Museum Spaces: Representing African American...

Author: Bettina Messias Carbonell
ISBN: 9798216385240
Format: Paperback
$55.99

Consequential Museum Spaces offers a comparative analysis of regional African American museum. The author examines...  Read More >>

East African Queer and Trans Displacements

East African Queer and Trans Displacements

Author: John Marnell (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) ,  B Camminga (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350422025
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Bringing together diverse case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, this open access collection serves as...  Read More >>

Seriality and Social Change

Seriality and Social Change

Author: Peter Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781803095837
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Can revolution unfold in chapters? Seriality has long shaped how we read, think, and act; Peter Hitchcock explores...  Read More >>

A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul

A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia...

Author: Caroline Moorehead
ISBN: 9781784745042
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly...  Read More >>

Love in Exile

Love in Exile

Author: Shon Faye
ISBN: 9781802061208
Format: Paperback
$28.99

The acclaimed Top 10 Sunday Times best-seller on our search for love Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the...  Read More >>

Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons

Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons

Author: Colin Shindler (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009838689
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Presenting a history of Israel through 100 cartoons, Colin Shindler offers an original, visually exciting and accessible...  Read More >>

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American...

Author: Eric Schlosser
ISBN: 9780241766064
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The ""New York Times"" bestseller that blew the lid off the fast food industry--exposing how they've malled our...  Read More >>

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and...

Author: Raja Shehadeh ,  Penny Johnson
ISBN: 9781805222422
Format: Paperback
$24.99

From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise...  Read More >>

Ubuntu: Conversations with Francoise Blum

Ubuntu: Conversations with Francoise Blum

Author: Souleymane Bachir Diagne ,  Andrew Brown (Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9781509570898
Format: Hardback
$82.95

Ubuntu, a Bantu word that became the first term from an Indigenous language to enter a political constitution, is...  Read More >>

Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline

Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping...

Author: Lorren Eldridge (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Emily Ireland (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781509983919
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism...  Read More >>

Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age

Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson...

Author: Dr. Melissa Adler (Western University, Canada)
ISBN: 9798765145623
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a close examination of Thomas Jefferson's plantation management...  Read More >>

Emily Dickinson: Over 100 selected poems

Emily Dickinson: Over 100 selected poems

Author: Emily Dickinson ,  Pele Cox
ISBN: 9781835553688
Format: Hardback
$29.99

Explore the enigmatic life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, whose poetry delves into themes of death, nature, love...  Read More >>

Downton Abbey: Politics of Nostalgia, Neoliberalism, and Empire

Downton Abbey: Politics of Nostalgia, Neoliberalism,...

Author: Tabassum ""Ruhi"" Khan
ISBN: 9781793654731
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines Downton Abbey’s dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and...  Read More >>

The South Africa Disputes before Apartheid: The United Nations and Commonwealth Relations, 1946-1952

The South Africa Disputes before Apartheid: The United...

Author: Robert Barnes (York St John University)
ISBN: 9781350439535
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A study of the early United Nations disputes over South Africa’s racial and expansionist polices to understand how...  Read More >>

The Global, the Local and the Glocal: Recent Approaches in Roman Archaeology

The Global, the Local and the Glocal: Recent Approaches...

Author: Dr Francesca Mazzilli (University of Bergen, Norway) ,  Rubén Montoya González (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350398429
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Explores the impact of Rome’s globalizing empire upon identity and visual culture in its western and eastern provinces,...  Read More >>

The Reinvention of Idealism: John William Miller and Other Navigators of the Critical Turn in American Philosophy

The Reinvention of Idealism: John William Miller and...

Author: Katie Terezakis
ISBN: 9781666945089
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This work examines attempts to go beyond Kantian idealism in American philosophies, as well as intentional recuperations...  Read More >>

Daily Life in Ancient Babylon

Daily Life in Ancient Babylon

Author: Professor John P. Nielsen (Bradley University, USA)
ISBN: 9798216169871
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Explore day-to-day life in ancient Babylon—its social structure, economy, religion, key figures, and cultural practices—and...  Read More >>

Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to Live

Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to Live...

Author: Amber Husain
ISBN: 9781529154337
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From an acclaimed cultural critic, a story of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment....  Read More >>

A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul

A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia...

Author: Caroline Moorehead
ISBN: 9781784745035
Format: Hardback
$65.00

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly...  Read More >>

The Good Society: And How We Make It

The Good Society: And How We Make It

Author: Kate Pickett
ISBN: 9781847928726
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp- the renowned co-author of...  Read More >>

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