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Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins

Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the...

Author: Amy Shea
ISBN: 9781978843981
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai

The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai

Author: Taylor Cole Miller ,  Alfred L Martin
ISBN: 9781978836846
Format: Paperback
$60.50

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Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair...

Author: Joseph M. Pierce
ISBN: 9781478032151
Format: Paperback
$78.99

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Sink or Swim: Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Sink or Swim: Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Andrew Kopec
ISBN: 9781469690179
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts

Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions...

Author: Anna Romanowicz ,  Ahana Choudhury
ISBN: 9781041059202
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural...  Read More >>

The Science of Arts Engagement: Redefining Audience Research Through Psychobiological Studies of Arts Experiences

The Science of Arts Engagement: Redefining Audience...

Author: Agnieszka Wlazeł
ISBN: 9781032861272
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book responds to the urgent need to develop new ways of studying audience engagement with the arts in times...  Read More >>

Navigating the Web of Disinformation: Employing Social Network Analysis to Decode Disinformation Dynamics in Modern Societies

Navigating the Web of Disinformation: Employing Social...

Author: Mariann Hardey (Durham University Business School, UK) ,  Wasim Ahmed (Hull University Business School, UK)
ISBN: 9781837083411
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Mariann Hardey and Wasim Ahmed offer a vital socio-technical examination of digital falsehoods, using Social Network...  Read More >>

Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism: Essays in Honour of Graham Harvey

Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism: Essays in Honour...

Author: David G Robertson ,  Paul-Francois Tremlett
ISBN: 9781800505803
Format: Hardback
$165.00

""Graham Harvey's work has had an impact on fields as diverse as environmentalism, ritual, indigenous religion,...  Read More >>

Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia

Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal...

Author: Jessica Urwin ,  Paul S. Sutter
ISBN: 9780295753799
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear order Though a nonnuclear...  Read More >>

A City on the Edge: Pandemic, Protest, and Polarization

A City on the Edge: Pandemic, Protest, and Polarization...

Author: Dennis R. McBride
ISBN: 9780253074072
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Some years change the course of history. 2020 was one of those years. As a pandemic, lockdowns, and an economic...  Read More >>

Histoire Du Marquis De Cressy: An MLA Text Edition

Histoire Du Marquis De Cressy: An MLA Text Edition

Author: Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni ,  Kate Deimling
ISBN: 9781603297059
Format: Paperback
$55.99

After a victorious return from war to the refined courts, a dashing Marquis embarks on a compelling journey through...  Read More >>

Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten

Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten...

Author: Ben Fletcher-Watson ,  Jo Shaw
ISBN: 9781399549448
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Stories of resistance, power and defiance from the women who dared to make history.  Read More >>

Race, Curriculum, and the Politics of Educational Justice

Race, Curriculum, and the Politics of Educational Justice...

Author: Wayne Au ,  James A. Banks
ISBN: 9780807787182
Format: Paperback
$81.40

An insightful collection of essays examines the intersection of education, curriculum, and racial politics. It demonstrates...  Read More >>

Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada's Longest-Running Residential School

Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk...

Author: Richard W. Hill Sr. ,  Alison Norman
ISBN: 9781773856520
Format: Paperback
$86.90

From the outside, the Mohawk Institute looks like a large and welcoming school building. When one looks behind the...  Read More >>

Greyhound: The Remarkable Story of the Harness-Racing Horse Who Inspired a Nation

Greyhound: The Remarkable Story of the Harness-Racing...

Author: Cheryl Eriksen
ISBN: 9781646013050
Format: Paperback
$79.07

For fans of Elizabeth Letts's The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes a compelling and illuminating true story about the...  Read More >>

Vignettes of Colonial Virginia: Remarkable Stories from the Founding of America

Vignettes of Colonial Virginia: Remarkable Stories from...

Author: Brent Tarter
ISBN: 9780813953908
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Illuminating stories of colonial life from the dean of Virginia history How did ordinary people experience life...  Read More >>

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship: Commoning Social Reproduction in Crisis-Ridden Athens, Greece

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship: Commoning Social...

Author: Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
ISBN: 9780820375052
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship: Commoning Social Reproduction in Crisis-Ridden Athens, Greece examines instances...  Read More >>

Beyond Artemis: Human Expeditions to the Moons of the Solar System

Beyond Artemis: Human Expeditions to the Moons of the...

Author: Michael Carroll
ISBN: 9783031970733
Format: Paperback
$90.54

The Moon offers humanity a site from which to understand our origins, and a springboard—both technologically and...  Read More >>

Torn Is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul

Torn Is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul...

Author: Canan Balan
ISBN: 9781836952633
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Re-examining film's potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the...  Read More >>

Matrix Factorization for Multimedia Clustering: Models, techniques, optimization and applications

Matrix Factorization for Multimedia Clustering: Models,...

Author: Hangjun Che (Associate Professor, Southwest University, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, China) ,  Xin Wang (Professor, Southwest University, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, China)
ISBN: 9781837241996
Format: Hardback
$382.80

This book explores clustering principles through advanced data analysis techniques, such as matrix and tensor factorization...  Read More >>

Social Intricacies of Coastal Communities in South India

Social Intricacies of Coastal Communities in South India...

Author: S. Irudaya Rajan (IIMAD, India) ,  Kildos Anthony Pillai
ISBN: 9781032436333
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book examines the social life of fishing communities in south India. It shows how modernization has brought...  Read More >>

The Panacea for Immigrant People in the Arctic: Opportunity or Vulnerability?

The Panacea for Immigrant People in the Arctic: Opportunity...

Author: Nafisa Yeasmin ,  Juhar Yasin Abamosa
ISBN: 9781041044444
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book explores whether the Arctic serves as a true panacea for immigrants, offering opportunity and renewal,...  Read More >>

Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present

Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and...

Author: Robert Spinelli ,  Robyn S. Lacy
ISBN: 9781836952909
Format: Hardback
$269.10

An overview of grieving and memorialization - from a diverse, international group of academics - ranging from traditional...  Read More >>

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