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Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air

Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles...

Author: Ann Carlson
ISBN: 9780520387393
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A stirring account of one of our greatest environmental success stories: cleaning up Southern California's air....  Read More >>

Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine

Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine...

Author: Peter Richardson
ISBN: 9780520399396
Format: Hardback
$45.95

How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism. Rolling Stone's first decade...  Read More >>

Justice at the Boundaries: Mediating Reconciliation and Legal Recognition in Taiwan's Indigenous Courts

Justice at the Boundaries: Mediating Reconciliation...

Author: J. Christopher Upton
ISBN: 9780520423312
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Justice at the Boundaries offers a powerful ethnographic account of the transformative potential and structural...  Read More >>

Untold Reflections from the World Conference Against Racism: From Durban to Humanity

Untold Reflections from the World Conference Against...

Author: Catherine S. Namakula
ISBN: 9783032172648
Format: Paperback
$263.97

This book unveils the details of the processes and deliberations that culminated in the consensual global commitment...  Read More >>

Lessons from an Executive Coach: Insights and Strategies for Learning and Practice

Lessons from an Executive Coach: Insights and Strategies...

Author: Iain McCormick
ISBN: 9781803885155
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Written by an internationally recognized master coach, Lessons from an Executive Coach uses the stories of fictionalized...  Read More >>

The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity

The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades...

Author: Carl Trueman
ISBN: 9780593713853
Format: Hardback
$65.00

""From Christian theologian and historian Carl Trueman, an argument that a blasphemous rejection of Christian anthropology...  Read More >>

Principles and Forms of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction

Principles and Forms of Sociocultural Organization:...

Author: Dmitri M. Bondarenko ,  Gleb V. Aleksandrov
ISBN: 9781839995910
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The volume explores the development of systems of social institutions in a variety of historical and regional contexts...  Read More >>

Ukraine’s Move to the West: The Power of Global Elite Networks

Ukraine’s Move to the West: The Power of Global Elite...

Author: Stephanie Hale
ISBN: 9781839996207
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book provides a great backstory of what is happening in Ukraine. It contextualises Ukraine's 2014 EU-IMF aid...  Read More >>

Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity: Internally Displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan

Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity: Internally Displaced...

Author: Houman Oliaei
ISBN: 9780253075581
Format: Hardback
$208.00

After ISIS's 2014 genocide, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis fled Sinjar, their ancestral homeland in northern Iraq....  Read More >>

Soviet materialities: Socialist things, environments and affects

Soviet materialities: Socialist things, environments...

Author: Mollie Arbuthnot ,  Christianna Bonin
ISBN: 9781526182128
Format: Hardback
$206.99

Soviet materialities rethinks Soviet history and culture through the lens of materiality, exploring how humans and...  Read More >>

Tuberous Worlds: Vegetal Politics and More-Than-Human Relations

Tuberous Worlds: Vegetal Politics and More-Than-Human...

Author: Olivia Ange ,  David Nally
ISBN: 9780300281774
Format: Hardback
$103.95

A fascinating examination of ""tuberous associations""—the economies, politics, and ecologies enabled by human-tuber...  Read More >>

The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea

The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative...

Author: David B. Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9780300279894
Format: Hardback
$51.95

The surprising two-hundred-year history of diversity in education, commerce, and science from the scholar the New...  Read More >>

Frida: The Making of an Icon

Frida: The Making of an Icon

Author: Mari Carmen Ramirez ,  James Oles
ISBN: 9780300286366
Format: Hardback
$103.95

A sweeping new assessment of Frida Kahlo's place in modern art, from her self-made image to her lasting influence...  Read More >>

Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life

Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life

Author: Mary Helen Washington
ISBN: 9780300253856
Format: Hardback
$39.95

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora...  Read More >>

Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times

Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult...

Author: Erwin Chemerinsky ,  Howard Gillman
ISBN: 9780300270983
Format: Hardback
$51.95

An examination of the new complexities arising around campus speech, and expert guidance for navigating them In...  Read More >>

No Hope For Normal

No Hope For Normal

Author: Francesca Borella
ISBN: 9781962702003
Format: Paperback
$52.80

All her life Francesca just wanted to be like everyone else: normal. After overcoming a childhood of adversity,...  Read More >>

Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis

Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis

Author: Robert M. Frame III
ISBN: 9780816667604
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide-and forever...  Read More >>

Profit vs. Progress: Why Socially Responsible Investment Doesn't Work and How to Fix It

Profit vs. Progress: Why Socially Responsible Investment...

Author: Brad Swanson
ISBN: 9780262051590
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Why socially responsible investment promises to make investors richer and the world better but fails at both.  Read More >>

Is God for Revolution?: Affect, Youth, and Islam in Post-2011 Egypt

Is God for Revolution?: Affect, Youth, and Islam in...

Author: Nareman Amin (Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islam, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islam, Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9780197804735
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Based on interviews with upper-middle-class Egyptian Muslims, Is God for Revolution? explores the ways in which...  Read More >>

Northern Grit: Stories About Women Leaders in Canada's Public Service

Northern Grit: Stories About Women Leaders in Canada's...

Author: Ingrid Bergmann ,  Mary Garden
ISBN: 9781049800660
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Northern Grit spotlights women leaders in Canada's public service, blending powerful stories and practical insights...  Read More >>

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City...

Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
ISBN: 9781035056279
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From the bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit...  Read More >>

Ambiguous Inclusion: Migration and Race on the Russia-China Border

Ambiguous Inclusion: Migration and Race on the Russia-China...

Author: Lauren Woodard
ISBN: 9781487557294
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Ambiguous Inclusion explores how Russian citizenship policies shape belonging, race, and identity for migrants along...  Read More >>

Mermaid Theory: Poems

Mermaid Theory: Poems

Author: Maya Salameh
ISBN: 9798888906538
Format: Hardback
$99.99

From an award-winning, innovative poet, a bold reimagination of Arab American womanhood in the modern military age...  Read More >>

The Phenomenology of Individual Agency: Science, Technology, and the Human Condition

The Phenomenology of Individual Agency: Science, Technology,...

Author: Jadwiga S. Smith ,  William S. Smith
ISBN: 9783032061461
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The volume investigates the phenomenology of individual agency in the context of the challenges dictated by modern...  Read More >>

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