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Sketchy 4

Sketchy 4

Author: MAKIHIROCHI
ISBN: 9798888770177
Format: Paperback
$26.99

As her thirties slip by, Ako feels like she's falling behind. But a group of skateboarding girls will bring a newfound...  Read More >>

te Mais: Latinx Futurisms

te Mais: Latinx Futurisms

Author: Alan Chazaro ,  Malcolm Friend
ISBN: 9781646053513
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A radical rethinking of poetics and the negation of borders from more than 40 Latinx poets. At Mais: Until More...  Read More >>

Flight of an Eagle: The Dreaming of Ruby Hammond

Flight of an Eagle: The Dreaming of Ruby Hammond

Author: Margaret Forte
ISBN: 9781743059593
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Flight of an Eagle: The dreaming of Ruby Hammond is an inspiring story of an Aboriginal woman who spent her life...  Read More >>

InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism

InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism...

Author: Chie Ikeya
ISBN: 9781501777134
Format: Hardback
$343.20

""This book traces the uncharted history of interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma across British...  Read More >>

A Prodigy's Calling: The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master

A Prodigy's Calling: The Early Musical Biography of...

Author: Paul F. Berliner
ISBN: 9780226835150
Format: Hardback
$190.95

The coming-of-age story of a master musician in mid-twentieth century colonial Rhodesia as he learns his community's...  Read More >>

Welsh Not: Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Wales

Welsh Not: Elementary Education and the Anglicisation...

Author: Martin Johnes
ISBN: 9781837721801
Format: Paperback
$42.95

A radical reinterpretation of the effect of excluding Welsh from schools on the fortunes of the language. Most...  Read More >>

Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum

Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle...

Author: Carol Cleaveland ,  Michele Waslin
ISBN: 9781479824335
Format: Paperback
$66.99

""Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum engages women's stories to examine how gender-based...  Read More >>

Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges

Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary...

Author: J. Michael Ryan ,  Helen Rizzo
ISBN: 9780815604907
Format: Paperback
$105.47

While a growing body of scholarship and internal advocacy groups have brought more open dialogue within the Middle...  Read More >>

Breaking Points: Youth Mental Health Crises and How We All Can Help

Breaking Points: Youth Mental Health Crises and How...

Author: Neely Laurenzo Myers
ISBN: 9780520400610
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Charlotte Salomon. Vie? ou Théâtre?

Charlotte Salomon. Vie? ou Théâtre?

Author: Evelyn Benesch ,  Judith C. E. Belinfante
ISBN: 9783836598675
Format: Hardback
$66.00

This is the cathartic masterpiece of Charlotte Salomon. Entrusted to a friend before her deportation to Auschwitz,...  Read More >>

The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture

The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise...

Author: Myles Ethan Lascity
ISBN: 9781469680910
Format: Paperback
$47.30

Reconsiders teen popular culture from the turn of the 21st century, revealing how it told young people that life...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and...

Author: Claudia Gastrow
ISBN: 9781469682181
Format: Paperback
$50.60

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity...  Read More >>

The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation

The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of...

Author: Dick Houtman ,  Galen Watts
ISBN: 9780231216852
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The Shape of Spirituality brings together leading sociologists to challenge common notions that spirituality is...  Read More >>

Our National Crisis: Violence Against Women & Children

Our National Crisis: Violence Against Women & Children...

Author: Kate Fitz-Gibbon
ISBN: 9781922979933
Format: Paperback
$19.95

Violence against women and children is a national crisis. Nearly a decade has passed since family violence was first...  Read More >>

Cottage for Sale: Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home

Cottage for Sale: Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House...

Author: Kate Whouley
ISBN: 9781961864108
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Before #housebeforespouse, before Tiny Houses were a thing, even before DIY'ers got hooked on HGTV, Kate Whouley...  Read More >>

Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology: New Myths and Performative Rituals between XR, Robots and AI

Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology:...

Author: Ester Fuoco
ISBN: 9781032676906
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate...  Read More >>

She Blooms: Finding Home After the Convent, a Memoir

She Blooms: Finding Home After the Convent, a Memoir...

Author: Maura Doherty
ISBN: 9798885450140
Format: Paperback
$66.00

When Maura Doherty decided to become a nun, she never anticipated that she would leave the convent nine years later....  Read More >>

Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference

Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance...

Author: Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo)
ISBN: 9781529233582
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book advances a new view of information and surveillance practices, as well as their related agencies, politics,...  Read More >>

Land of Tears: A Journey of Language, Loyalty, & War from an Iranian-American Translator Serving with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan

Land of Tears: A Journey of Language, Loyalty, & War...

Author: Sanjar Roham
ISBN: 9798988745662
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Following the 2008 economic crash, Iranian-American Sanjar Rohām, a once in-demand business consultant in Los Angeles,...  Read More >>

Contemporary Opera in Flux

Contemporary Opera in Flux

Author: Yayoi U Everett
ISBN: 9780472056262
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Contributors to this volume push the boundaries of contemporary opera scholarship by examining works that disrupt...  Read More >>

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's ""Heroides""

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's ""Heroides""

Author: Simona Martorana
ISBN: 9781501777066
Format: Hardback
$155.63

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Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy

Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives...

Author: Robert G. Hollands (Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9781529233131
Format: Paperback
$67.99

A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such 'urban makeovers' lie serious...  Read More >>

Faith in Education at the Skidaway Island Benedictine Mission

Faith in Education at the Skidaway Island Benedictine...

Author: Laura Seifert
ISBN: 9780820367217
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Having survived the turmoil of Reconstruction, several hundred African American tenant farmers were settled on Skidaway...  Read More >>

Duval County Tejanos Volume 9: An Epic Narrative of Liberty and Democracy

Duval County Tejanos Volume 9: An Epic Narrative of...

Author: Alfredo E. Cárdenas
ISBN: 9781574419443
Format: Hardback
$79.07

In Texas, to hear the words “Duval County” evokes Archie and George Parr, politics, and corruption. But this does...  Read More >>

The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2022

The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and...

Author: Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo (Emeritus Professor of International Law, Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Salerno)
ISBN: 9780197752265
Format: Hardback
$1056.00

The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence is a one-stop resource for all researchers...  Read More >>

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