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I Grew Up in the Church: How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories

I Grew Up in the Church: How American Evangelical Women...

Author: Bethany Ober Mannon
ISBN: 9781481318938
Format: Paperback
$56.10

In this book, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who have influenced the contemporary...  Read More >>

The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

Author: Sally J. Pla
ISBN: 9780063268807
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the courage to tell him...  Read More >>

Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust

Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of...

Author: David Joseph
ISBN: 9781398122567
Format: Paperback
$33.61

New paperback edition - A dazzling multi-generational examination exploring Jewishness in Europe, the Holocaust...  Read More >>

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the...

Author: Wolfram Eilenberger ,  Shaun Whiteside
ISBN: 9780141998473
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism...  Read More >>

State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: Law, Politics, Ethics

State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: Law, Politics,...

Author: Francesca Dominello
ISBN: 9780367460310
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.  Read More >>

Women Who Kill: A History of Britain's Most Dangerous Women

Women Who Kill: A History of Britain's Most Dangerous...

Author: Erin Fetterly
ISBN: 9781399047708
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Innocent, guilty, coerced, framed. These are the stories of dozens of women who found themselves on the wrong side...  Read More >>

Urbanisation in Bengal: Ideas, Institutions and Policies

Urbanisation in Bengal: Ideas, Institutions and Policies...

Author: Pallavi Chakravarty
ISBN: 9781032361321
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It...  Read More >>

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Strategic Communications: Becoming Culturally Proficient Communicators

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Strategic Communications:...

Author: Lee Bush (Elon University, USA) ,  Karen Lindsey (Elon University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032533865
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Taking a DEI-first approach, this book teaches students to become culturally proficient communicators by approaching...  Read More >>

Intersectional (Feminist) Activisms: Global Practices and Experiences

Intersectional (Feminist) Activisms: Global Practices...

Author: Serena D’Agostino (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) ,  Nadia E. Brown (Georgetown University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032749242
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The edited volume tackles two main questions: first, what are the main claims, struggles, and possibilities of contemporary...  Read More >>

Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?

Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies:...

Author: Aeneas Zi Wang ,  Aimi Muranaka
ISBN: 9781032537894
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Considering the situation in Japan and Germany, this book analyses the needs of host countries from a demographic...  Read More >>

Greening Higher Education in Europe: Institutional Transitions to Sustainable Development

Greening Higher Education in Europe: Institutional Transitions...

Author: Magdalena Popowska
ISBN: 9781032559490
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the developments that have taken place in European higher education...  Read More >>

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions...

Author: John Grisham ,  Jim McCloskey
ISBN: 9780593866825
Format: Paperback
$84.48

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries...  Read More >>

Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier

Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British...

Author: Manjeet Baruah (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
ISBN: 9781032620176
Format: Hardback
$284.00

British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so...  Read More >>

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered...

Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock
ISBN: 9780593082539
Format: Paperback
$50.16

A landmark work by the UK's only Aztec historian that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age...  Read More >>

Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked

Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked

Author: Gina Frangello
ISBN: 9781632461629
Format: Paperback
$27.99

What is it about Elena Ferrante's writing, especially her masterwork Neapolitan Novels, that resonates so deeply...  Read More >>

The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim

The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the...

Author: Hannah S. Palmer
ISBN: 9780807181898
Format: Hardback
$92.27

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Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era

Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging...

Author: Emily Marker
ISBN: 9781501775888
Format: Paperback
$71.15

""Illuminates the entangled history of African decolonization and European integration through the lens of youth....  Read More >>

American Revolutions in the Digital Age

American Revolutions in the Digital Age

Author: Nora Slonimsky ,  Mark Boonshoft
ISBN: 9781501771842
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The interdisciplinary essays in American Revolutions in the Digital Age explore what digital tools can tell us about...  Read More >>

Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World

Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World...

Author: Nellwyn Lampert ,  Pamela Oakley
ISBN: 9781990071256
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The perfect antidote to the toxicity of the current productivity narrative, this collection of essays on creativity...  Read More >>

Métis Music: Stories of Recognition and Resurgence

Métis Music: Stories of Recognition and Resurgence

Author: Monique Giroux
ISBN: 9780228022268
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Monique Giroux traces the path of Métis music as it has moved within and through mainstream spaces while remaining...  Read More >>

Yr Dead

Yr Dead

Author: Sam Sax
ISBN: 9781914198861
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down

The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology...

Author: Richard Cavell
ISBN: 9780228022725
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.  Read More >>

Worldwise: Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century

Worldwise: Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century

Author: Robert Schwartzwald ,  Sherry Simon
ISBN: 9780228022923
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century; his writings are an account of a life...  Read More >>

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