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Force Like No Other 1(2017) BREEN, COLINIn 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. Now, for the first time, the men and women who policed the Troubles tell their stories in their own words.Vezava: Mehka18,52 € -
Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India(2019) BREMAN, JAN (UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM)Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequalityVezava: Trda154,03 € -
Feeding the People(2020) EARLE, REBECCA (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today everyone eats them. This book traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. En route it helps explain why we feel so ambivalent about governmental dietary guidelines aVezava: Trda37,42 € -
Land of Open Graves(2015) DE LEON, JASONSheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. This book reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Untold History of Ramen(2014) SOLT, GEORGEA rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.Vezava: Mehka48,47 € -
Music after the Fall(2017) RUTHERFORD-JOHNSON, TIMA survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. It considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digiVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Comparative Method(2014) RAGIN, CHARLES C.Proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative sociology.Vezava: Mehka48,47 € -
Bananas, Beaches and Bases(2014) ENLOE, CYNTHIAPresents a radical analysis of globalization. This title examines recent events - Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns - to reveal the crucial role of women iVezava: Mehka54,55 € -
Lavender and Red(2016) HOBSON, EMILY K.LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. This book recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidaritVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
How Forests Think(2013) KOHN, EDUARDOAvoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of theVezava: Mehka56,43 € -
Molecular Feminisms(2018) ROY, DEBOLEENA (SHOULD FEMINISTS CLONE?, EMORY UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Mehka60,49 € -
Queer Feminist Science Studies(2017)Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS).Vezava: Mehka60,49 € -
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics(2018)Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship.Vezava: Mehka60,49 € -
On the Plaza(2000) LOW, SETHA M.Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.Vezava: Mehka36,58 € -
Kawsay Vida(2014) HOWARD, ROSALEENA course book and interactive multimedia program on DVD that is suitable for the teaching and learning of the Quechua language from beginner to advanced levels. It provides a practical introduction to spoken Quechua through the medium of English, while thVezava: Mehka48,22 € -
England and the Aeroplane(2013) EDGERTON, DAVIDReverses received wisdom, showing that the aeroplane is a central and revealing aspect of an unfamiliar English nation: a warfare state dedicated to technology, industry, empire and military power. This title tells the story of aeronautical England, fromVezava: Mehka22,42 €










