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  • - Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
    af Adia Benton
    233,95 kr.

    "Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig), and by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota."

  • - The Social in the Afterlives of Violence
    af Yasmeen Arif
    273,95 kr.

  • - The Rise of Public Dining in Boston
    af Kelly Erby
    233,95 - 733,95 kr.

    Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining.In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston during the nineteenth century.

  • - Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life
    af Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
    188,95 kr.

  • - Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
    af Marco Deseriis
    243,95 kr.

    Bridging gaps among thehistory of the labor movement, cinema studies, art history, media activism, andhacking, Improper Names examines the contentious politics and thestruggles for the control of a shared alias from the early nineteenth centuryto the age of networks.

  • - Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics
    af Luis M. Castaneda
    323,95 - 978,95 kr.

  • - Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
    af Eric Avila
    233,95 kr.

  • - Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
    af Cindy Patton
    318,95 - 633,95 kr.

    Analyzing the medical clinic after neoliberalism.

  • - Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand
    af Margaret Werry
    353,95 - 738,95 kr.

    Examining the role of performance in state-making

  • - IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976
    af John Harwood
    278,95 kr.

  • - The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
    af Ryan Thomas Skinner
    253,95 - 808,95 kr.

    "Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota."

  • - Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
    af Amy L. Howard
    253,95 - 768,95 kr.

    By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them. These stories challenge assumptions about public housing and its tenants--and make way for a broader, more productive and inclusive vision of the public housing program in the United States.

  • - Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
    af Andrew Newman
    273,95 kr.

  • - The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945
    af Weihong Bao
    278,95 kr.

    In Fiery Cinema, Weihong Bao traces the permutations of cinema as an affective medium in China from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.

  • - Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
    af Mona Atia
    253,95 kr.

    Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 2008.

  • - Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
    af Matthew T. Huber
    272,95 kr.

    Looking beyond the usual culprits, Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Matthew T. Huber uses oil to retell American political history from the triumph of New Deal liberalism to the rise of the New Right, from oil's celebration as the lifeblood of postwar capitalism to increasing anxieties over oil addiction.

  • - Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
    af Catherine Fennell
    243,95 - 878,95 kr.

    In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecur

  • - White Flight and the Animal Ghetto
    af Lisa Uddin
    253,95 kr.

    Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In "Zoo Renewal, " Uddin demon

  • - Reading a West African Road
    af Marcus Filippello
    243,95 - 1.008,95 kr.

    Sometimes a road is more than just a road

  • - Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
    af Rebecca R. Scott
    335,95 - 698,95 kr.

    An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

  • - Military Fables of Toxic Waste
    af Shiloh R. Krupar
    253,95 - 698,95 kr.

  • - Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
    af Laura Mauldin
    253,95 - 858,95 kr.

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