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Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey: A Critical Reading

Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey:...

Author: Petek Onur
ISBN: 9783031508745
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop

Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the...

Author: Tom Fort
ISBN: 9781472291950
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's...  Read More >>

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean -- A Gripping New History of Cyprus

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean...

Author: Alex Christofi
ISBN: 9781399401890
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.  Read More >>

The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and...

Author: Stuart Maconie
ISBN: 9780008498290
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A...  Read More >>

The Fall of Roe

The Fall of Roe

Author: Lisa Lerer ,  Elizabeth Dias
ISBN: 9781786584083
Format: Hardback
$45.00

The definitive book on the fall of Roe vs Wade and the domination of the religious right in US politics by two leading...  Read More >>

The Best for the Last

The Best for the Last

Author: Margaret Jean Howard
ISBN: 9798893959291
Format: Paperback
$29.01

With this factual account of Rev. Dr. Margaret Jean Howard's life, she shares the numerous challenges that she faced...  Read More >>

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean -- A Gripping New History of Cyprus

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean...

Author: Alex Christofi
ISBN: 9781399401883
Format: Hardback
$42.99

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.  Read More >>

Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it

Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do...

Author: Beth Ashley
ISBN: 9780241675236
Format: Hardback
$37.99

From award-winning journalist Beth Ashley comes a groundbreaking investigation into the history of slutshaming,...  Read More >>

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid...

Author: Elena Poniatowska ,  Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
ISBN: 9783031111792
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance...  Read More >>

The Routledge History of Happiness

The Routledge History of Happiness

Author: Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide, Australia) ,  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032323190
Format: Hardback
$452.00

Unmatched in originality, breadth, and scope, The Routledge History of Happiness features chapters that explore...  Read More >>

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's...

Author: Alice Randall
ISBN: 9781668018408
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From Vanderbilt Professor, award-winning songwriter, novelist, and author Alice Randall comes a lyrical account...  Read More >>

The Best for the Last

The Best for the Last

Author: Margaret Jean Howard
ISBN: 9798893959277
Format: Hardback
$47.49

With this factual account of Rev. Dr. Margaret Jean Howard's life, she shares the numerous challenges that she faced...  Read More >>

Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation...

Author: Wen Liu
ISBN: 9780252087905
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Asian Americans have become the love-hate subject of the American psyche: at times celebrated as the model minority,...  Read More >>

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and...

Author: Belinda Edmondson
ISBN: 9780198914648
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss

All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation,...

Author: Dena Rueb Romero
ISBN: 9781647426545
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Forbidden by Nazi racial purity laws to marry his beloved in Germany and forced to emigrate to America to escape...  Read More >>

The Caribbean and the Second World War

The Caribbean and the Second World War

Author: Colin Douglas
ISBN: 9781913546793
Format: Paperback
$41.40

This book highlights the pivotal role of the Caribbean in the Second World War.  Read More >>

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Author: Rebecca Smith
ISBN: 9780008526313
Format: Paperback
$28.44

‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘Thoughtful,...  Read More >>

The story of Bury St Edmunds Market Cross: the history, the actors, and the architect Robert Adam

The story of Bury St Edmunds Market Cross: the history,...

Author: Adrian Tindall
ISBN: 9781915067432
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Designed in 1774 by the celebrated architect Robert Adam, the...  Read More >>

Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul

Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's...

Author: Kit Holden
ISBN: 9780715655412
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Traverse the major footballing heartlands of the UEFA Euro 2024 hosts in this eloquent and enlightening search for...  Read More >>

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and Youth Sexuality in Postwar Britain

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and...

Author: Caroline Rusterholz (Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)
ISBN: 9780192866271
Format: Hardback
$63.95

This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of...  Read More >>

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics...

Author: Marisela R. Chávez
ISBN: 9780252045707
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods...  Read More >>

Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion

Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion

Author: Robert J. Turpin
ISBN: 9780252045752
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252045844
Format: Hardback
$295.00

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

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