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American Flygirl

American Flygirl

Author: Susan Tate Ankeny
ISBN: 9780806542829
Format: Hardback
$65.00

One of WWII's most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot's...  Read More >>

Secret Missions of the Suffragettes: Glassbreakers and Safe Houses

Secret Missions of the Suffragettes: Glassbreakers and...

Author: Jennifer Godfrey
ISBN: 9781399013963
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Explores the Women’s Social and Political Union’s window smashing Great Militant Protest in great detail.  Read More >>

A History of Fans and Fandom: A Journey into the Passion and Power of Fan Culture

A History of Fans and Fandom: A Journey into the Passion...

Author: Holly Swinyard
ISBN: 9781399042833
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A journey into the assion and power of fan culture.  Read More >>

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular...

Author: Ousseina D. Alidou
ISBN: 9780472076680
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society...  Read More >>

K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean Television

K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love...

Author: Grace Jung
ISBN: 9780762485727
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Illustrator statement of responsibility from title page verso.  Read More >>

Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

Author: Chara Kokkiou ,  Angeliki Malakasioti (Ionian University, Greece)
ISBN: 9781032355825
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has...  Read More >>

Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men's Gender Activism

Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men's Gender Activism...

Author: Emily K. Carian
ISBN: 9781479821013
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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Insurgent Planning Practice

Insurgent Planning Practice

Author: Roberto Rocco ,  Gabriel Silvestre
ISBN: 9781788216760
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This book investigates the communicative turn in planning practice, and its potential for insurgent forms of civic...  Read More >>

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland...

Author: Harriet Cornell ,  Professor Julian Goodare
ISBN: 9781837650484
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society.  Read More >>

Die Hoffnungen der Auguren: Techniken der Sozialprognose im Amerika des Kalten Krieges

Die Hoffnungen der Auguren: Techniken der Sozialprognose...

Author: Christian Dayé
ISBN: 9783031475788
Format: Hardback
$263.97

In diesem Buch wird beschrieben, wie Forscher im Kalten Krieg Expertenmeinungen nutzten, um Vorauswissen von geopolitischer...  Read More >>

Outskirts: Queer Experiences on the Fringe

Outskirts: Queer Experiences on the Fringe

Author: D'Lane R. Compton ,  Amy L. Stone
ISBN: 9781479821501
Format: Paperback
$75.99

"""Outskirts is an edited volume from sociology scholars that addresses the complexity of the queer experience in...  Read More >>

Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation, Re-creation

Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation,...

Author: Dr Alexandra Lester-Makin (Author) ,  Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 9781837650132
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An interdisciplinary study of the uses, meanings, and social impact of Viking Age textiles.  Read More >>

African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction

African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil...

Author: Professor Jack Taylor (Author)
ISBN: 9781648250910
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the...  Read More >>

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belongings

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections,...

Author: Dr Shimelis Bonsa Gulema ,  Professor Hewan Girma
ISBN: 9781648250880
Format: Hardback
$343.20

A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience...  Read More >>

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions...

Author: Rose Miron
ISBN: 9781517912710
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Who has the right to represent Native history? The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates...  Read More >>

Racial Justice and the Limits of Law

Racial Justice and the Limits of Law

Author: Bharat Malkani (Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9781529230734
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book examines law’s troubled relationship with racial justice. Both a lawyer’s guide to anti-racism and an...  Read More >>

Taking Privacy Seriously: How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect

Taking Privacy Seriously: How to Create the Rights We...

Author: James B. Rule
ISBN: 9780520382626
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Other books remind us of what we already know—that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step...  Read More >>

Nine questions every actor of color should consider when tokenism is not enough

Nine questions every actor of color should consider...

Author: Shanésia Davis
ISBN: 9781032264608
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book confronts and analyzes the systemic racism that confronts actors of color in the USA through interviews...  Read More >>

Methods for Community-Based Research: Advancing Educational Justice and Epistemic Rights

Methods for Community-Based Research: Advancing Educational...

Author: María Paula Ghiso ,  Gerald Campano (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
ISBN: 9781032246659
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Methods for Community-Based Research describes how Community-Based Research (CBR) is particularly suited to understand...  Read More >>

Sailing and Social Class

Sailing and Social Class

Author: Alan O'Connor (Trent University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032703572
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical...  Read More >>

Media, Culture and Society: An Introduction

Media, Culture and Society: An Introduction

Author: Paul Hodkinson
ISBN: 9781529796537
Format: Paperback
$95.71

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Analyzing Text and Discourse: Nine Approaches for the Social Sciences

Analyzing Text and Discourse: Nine Approaches for the...

Author: Anders Björkvall ,  Kristina Boreus
ISBN: 9781529601954
Format: Paperback
$82.77

An anthology of textual analysis methodologies, this book outlines the advantages and challenges of each approach...  Read More >>

Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh

Author: Catherine Rees ,  Graham Saunders (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781032027715
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This comprehensive, accessible introduction to Martin McDonagh outlines his body of work, the key critical contexts...  Read More >>

Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping: Fact or Fiction?

Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping: Fact or Fiction?...

Author: Sally Anne Corcoran
ISBN: 9781032642086
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates to what extent UNSCR 1325/WPS agenda has functioned in practice, to advance women’s equality...  Read More >>

Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox: Challenging the Polarization of South African Discourse

Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox: Challenging...

Author: Renée Schatteman
ISBN: 9781032598604
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and ground-breaking writers,...  Read More >>

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