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  • - The Social in the Afterlives of Violence
    by Yasmeen Arif
    £25.99

  • - The Rise of Public Dining in Boston
    by Kelly Erby
    £21.99 - 66.49

    Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining.In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston during the nineteenth century.

  • - Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
    by Laura Mauldin
    £23.99 - 72.49

  • - Reading a West African Road
    by Marcus Filippello
    £22.99 - 89.49

    Sometimes a road is more than just a road

  • - The Architectures of Unilateral Unification
    by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
    £34.99

    The first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city

  • - Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
    by Catherine Fennell
    £22.99 - 78.99

    In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecur

  • - Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
    by Marco Deseriis
    £22.99

    Bridging gaps among thehistory of the labor movement, cinema studies, art history, media activism, andhacking, Improper Names examines the contentious politics and thestruggles for the control of a shared alias from the early nineteenth centuryto the age of networks.

  • - Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics
    by Luis M. Castaneda
    £29.49 - 86.99

  • - Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
    by Eric Avila
    £21.99

  • - Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
    by Amy L. Howard
    £23.99 - 68.99

    By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them. These stories challenge assumptions about public housing and its tenants--and make way for a broader, more productive and inclusive vision of the public housing program in the United States.

  • - Military Fables of Toxic Waste
    by Shiloh R. Krupar
    £23.99 - 62.49

  • - Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
    by Cindy Patton
    £21.99 - 56.49

    Analyzing the medical clinic after neoliberalism.

  • - Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life
    by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
    £17.49

  • - Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
    by Rebecca R. Scott
    £23.99 - 62.49

    An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

  • - IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976
    by John Harwood
    £25.99

  • - Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand
    by Margaret Werry
    £23.99 - 62.49

    Examining the role of performance in state-making

  • - The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
    by Ryan Thomas Skinner
    £23.99 - 72.49

    "Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota."

  • - Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
    by Adia Benton
    £21.99

    "Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig), and by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota."

  • - Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
    by Andrew Newman
    £25.99

  • - The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945
    by Weihong Bao
    £25.99

    In Fiery Cinema, Weihong Bao traces the permutations of cinema as an affective medium in China from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.

  • - Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
    by Mona Atia
    £23.99

    Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 2008.

  • - Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
    by Matthew T. Huber
    £23.99

    Looking beyond the usual culprits, Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Matthew T. Huber uses oil to retell American political history from the triumph of New Deal liberalism to the rise of the New Right, from oil's celebration as the lifeblood of postwar capitalism to increasing anxieties over oil addiction.

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