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Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition...

Author: Silky Shah ,  Amna A. Akbar
ISBN: 9798888901229
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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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 >>

Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity

Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics...

Author: Ariel Osterweis (Faculty, Faculty, California Institute of the Arts)
ISBN: 9780190645816
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the...  Read More >>

Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders

Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others...

Author: Emrah Yildiz
ISBN: 9780520379824
Format: Hardback
$140.95

"What is the value—religious, political, economic, or altogether social—of getting on a bus in Tehran for its travelers...  Read More >>

The Children’s Hour

The Children’s Hour

Author: Julia Erhart
ISBN: 9780228021193
Format: Hardback
$250.80

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia...  Read More >>

A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire of the Press

A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire...

Author: César Castellvi
ISBN: 9781032615813
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book represents an in-depth analysis of journalism in Japan during the golden era of the daily press and the...  Read More >>

Seeing More: Kant's Theory of Imagination

Seeing More: Kant's Theory of Imagination

Author: Samantha Matherne (Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780198898283
Format: Hardback
$219.95

There is a long-standing tradition in philosophy that defines imagination as engaging with things that are not real...  Read More >>

The Fatter Sex: A Battle Plan For Women's Weight Health And Humour

The Fatter Sex: A Battle Plan For Women's Weight Health...

Author: Sacha Jones
ISBN: 9780473697761
Format: Paperback
$65.97

This book exposes the extent of the female 'body battle' and the limits of 'diet culture' and 'body positivity'...  Read More >>

Social Perspectives on Trans Health

Social Perspectives on Trans Health

Author: Christy E. Newman ,  Anthony K J Smith
ISBN: 9781032722429
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Transgender people are waiting to be seen in healthcare and waiting to be recognised as the legitimate experts on...  Read More >>

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing Perspectives 10

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing...

Author: Ingrid Hjelm (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032702858
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, which explore the history...  Read More >>

Global Cybersecurity and International Law

Global Cybersecurity and International Law

Author: Antonio Segura Serrano
ISBN: 9781032382319
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book offers a critical analysis of cybersecurity from a legal-international point of view. It evaluates the...  Read More >>

Women's Football, Culture, and Identity

Women's Football, Culture, and Identity

Author: Kate Themen (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032330082
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the experiences of amateur players in women’s football, challenging conventional discourses that...  Read More >>

Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses, Regulation, Rupture

Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses,...

Author: Mark Turner (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032591223
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This is the first book to focus on the interrelated issues of social control and disorder in football. It shows...  Read More >>

Globalisation and Pandemic Management: Issues and Outcomes from COVID-19

Globalisation and Pandemic Management: Issues and Outcomes...

Author: Chris L. Peterson (La Trobe University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032582825
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects...  Read More >>

Disability as Diversity in India: Theory, Practice, and Lived Experience

Disability as Diversity in India: Theory, Practice,...

Author: Sandhya Limaye ,  Christopher Johnstone
ISBN: 9780367410216
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Drawing upon intersectionality theory, it explores a range of issues regarding everyday experiences of disability...  Read More >>

COVID-19 and the Left: The Tyranny of Fear

COVID-19 and the Left: The Tyranny of Fear

Author: Elena Louisa Lange (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ,  Geoff Shullenberger (New York University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032486697
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the rise of a new form of emergency capitalism in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring...  Read More >>

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Author: Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
ISBN: 9781032226859
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both...  Read More >>

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism...

Author: Ford Risley ,  Ashley Walter
ISBN: 9781442235267
Format: Hardback
$70.99

This concise history of American journalism introduces readers to the news media from the first colonial newspapers...  Read More >>

A History of Macedonian Sociology: In Quest for Identity

A History of Macedonian Sociology: In Quest for Identity...

Author: Naum Trajanovski
ISBN: 9783031488689
Format: Hardback
$100.29

This book is the first English-language monograph about the institutional development of sociology in (North) Macedonia....  Read More >>

Treating Violence: A Doctor's Search for a Cure

Treating Violence: A Doctor's Search for a Cure

Author: Rob Gore
ISBN: 9780807020166
Format: Hardback
$65.00

"The inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood...  Read More >>

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question

Author: Roxani Krystalli (Lecturer, Lecturer, University of St. Andrews)
ISBN: 9780197764534
Format: Hardback
$193.95

"As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that...  Read More >>

On Marriage

On Marriage

Author: Devorah Baum
ISBN: 9780241998021
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker...  Read More >>

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