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Contrary to accepted wisdom, rapid urban growth can leave communities permanently scarred, deeply in debt, with unaffordable housing, a lost sense of community, and sacrificed environmental quality. This resource provides insights, ideas, and tools to empower everyone from ordinary citizens to professional planners to switch off their local "growth machine" by debunking the pro-growth rhetoric.

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Few know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated not long ago. However, widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger is once again a major issue.Betting on Faminewill enlighten all who are concerned about the politics of food.

(Hardback)

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The story of the 2017 general election told by two respected journalists with privileged access to all the key players.

(Paperback)

How Barack Obama's rise is reshaping the meaning of race in the United States today.

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(Paperback, English)

Between East and West: A Gulf looks towards the contested hydrography of the Arabian/Persian Gulf and proposes a new masterplan for the region.

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How feminists and Islamists have constituted each other's agendas in Morocco

(Hardback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.

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At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late nineteenth century, as blacks and whites alike l

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This collection of essays focuses on queer, lesbian and gay documentary, arguing that documentary films and videos articulate an essential political and social urgency, acting as testaments to the importance of reclaiming history and reasserting the importance of these points of view.

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Offers a look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female. This book explains dozens of intersex conditions - such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome - and includes personal interviews with people living with these conditions telling their surprising and often heart-wrenching stories.

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An examination of nationhood, identity and the role of education in the increasingly diverse arenas of contemporary society.

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The sequel to the best-selling The Book of the Bizarre, Beyond Bizarre offers up scores of new freaky facts, terrifying trivia, and stranger-than-fiction stories.

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Beyond Definition confronts questions of sexuality and identity in a collection of dynamic work.

(Hardback, 1)

(Paperback, 1)

(Hardback, 2nd ed.)

An intervention into the landscape of contemporary political theory. This book argues that the survival of democracy depends on recognizing the failings of disengaged liberal democracy - the exclusions and subjugations that accompany every democratic "we," for example - and experimenting with more radical modes of democratic theory and action.

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An intervention into the landscape of contemporary political theory. This book argues that the survival of democracy depends on recognizing the failings of disengaged liberal democracy - the exclusions and subjugations that accompany every democratic "we," for example - and experimenting with more radical modes of democratic theory and action.

(Paperback)

An original and convincing political and philosophical argument that capitalism-even when highly regulated-will always breed massive inequality

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Beyond Marx and Other Entries explores everything from semiotics, economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and political science, to Franz Kafka's literary works.