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Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and...

Author: Tom Goodfellow (Professor of Urban Studies and International Development, Professor of Urban Studies and International Development, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780198916383
Format: Paperback
$63.95

This book offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa...  Read More >>

Battlefield Rations: The Food Given to the British Soldier for Marching and Fighting 1900-2011

Battlefield Rations: The Food Given to the British Soldier...

Author: Anthony Clayton ,  Lord Dannatt
ISBN: 9781909384187
Format: Paperback
$42.99

An army marches on its stomach, observed Napoleon. One hundred and fifty years later General Rommel remarked that...  Read More >>

Importance of Role Modeling in Educational Settings: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview

Importance of Role Modeling in Educational Settings:...

Author: Syeda Shagufta Quadri
ISBN: 9783031381027
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create...  Read More >>

Tackling the Obesity Crisis: Beyond Failed Approaches to Lasting Solutions

Tackling the Obesity Crisis: Beyond Failed Approaches...

Author: David Benton
ISBN: 9783031481963
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The obesity epidemic reflects a failure to understand how meals are chosen.  Read More >>

Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy

Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy,...

Author: Robert D. Atkinson ,  David Moschella
ISBN: 9783031523489
Format: Paperback
$100.29

Technologies and tech companies are routinely accused of creating many societal problems. Technology Fears and...  Read More >>

Tender Headed

Tender Headed

Author: Olatunde Osinaike
ISBN: 9781636141411
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Tender Headed, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally...  Read More >>

True Living Organics: The Artisan All-Natural Style of Growing Cannabis: Druid's Edition (3rd Edition)

True Living Organics: The Artisan All-Natural Style...

Author: The Rev
ISBN: 9781937866822
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The Rev’s third edition of True Living Organics is a unique guide that teaches readers how to transform their grow...  Read More >>

From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring: A History of Three Egyptian Thawras Reconsidered

From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring: A...

Author: Uzi Rabi ,  Mira Tzoreff
ISBN: 9781032398273
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Focused on three Egyptian revolutions – in 1919, 1952, and 2011 – this edited book argues that each of these revolutions...  Read More >>

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question

Author: Roxani Krystalli (Lecturer, Lecturer, University of St. Andrews)
ISBN: 9780197764541
Format: Paperback
$52.95

"As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that...  Read More >>

Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change Our World

Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change...

Author: Sarah DiGregorio
ISBN: 9780063071292
Format: Paperback
$45.00

But the potential power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world endures.The story of nursing is complicated....  Read More >>

The Monsoon War: A Novel

The Monsoon War: A Novel

Author: Bina Shah
ISBN: 9781953002372
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The Monsoon War revisits the futuristic country of Before She Sleeps, where government leaders maintain a stranglehold...  Read More >>

A Political History of Sport in Sweden

A Political History of Sport in Sweden

Author: Jens Ljunggren
ISBN: 9783031461842
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics...  Read More >>

There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood

There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification...

Author: Sara Martucci
ISBN: 9781479815579
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"""There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects...  Read More >>

Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable...

Author: Max Holleran
ISBN: 9780691259116
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement...  Read More >>

Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity

Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics...

Author: Ariel Osterweis (Faculty, Faculty, California Institute of the Arts)
ISBN: 9780190645823
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the...  Read More >>

Religion and Humour: An Introduction

Religion and Humour: An Introduction

Author: David Feltmate
ISBN: 9781032125558
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is the first volume to introduce the field of religion and humour, exploring their intersection through...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities

The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities...

Author: Ezra Chitando ,  Obert Bernard Mlambo
ISBN: 9783031491665
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of key theoretical and analytical approaches,...  Read More >>

Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World

Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications...

Author: Monika Kuffer ,  Stefanos Georganos
ISBN: 9783031491825
Format: Hardback
$475.17

In this book, we aim to provide an outlook on how Remote Sensing can provide tailored solutions to information needs...  Read More >>

Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling

Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling

Author: Cynthia K. Chandler (University of North Texas, USA)
ISBN: 9781032193519
Format: Hardback
$294.00

The fourth edition of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling is the most comprehensive book available dedicated to...  Read More >>

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Author: Camille T Dungy
ISBN: 9781982195311
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders)...  Read More >>

Associated Labor and Production in the Age of Barbarism: Education Beyond Capital

Associated Labor and Production in the Age of Barbarism:...

Author: Henrique Tahan Novaes
ISBN: 9783031511820
Format: Hardback
$316.77

The book focuses on different practices of associated labor in Brazil and Argentina, in the case of the workers’...  Read More >>

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