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A seminal Jones/Baraka literary landmine that launches Akashic Books' new African American-focused reprint series.

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From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

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From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

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Fifty years after Stonewall, critic James Polchin reveals the hidden history of violence against gay men in America.

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Examines the struggle for equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release of the Sachar Committee report of 2006, which sparked widespread awareness of socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religious minorities in India, especially Muslims. The contributors are some of the most eminent social scientists in the fields of applied economics, politics, sociology and demography.

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A fascinating and highly accessible overview of this radical critical approach to understanding power, ideology, race, class and gender.

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A graphic guide to the key ideas of feminism, from the seventeenth century to the present day, and the remarkable individuals who fought against the oppression of women.

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A complete but accessible overview of the complex relationship between the media, ideology, knowledge and power.

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A superb graphic guide to the shockwave of innovations that hit art, architecture, music, cinemas and literature during the early and mid-twentieth century.

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An enjoyable, comic-style book on this enigmatic concept that has defined our cultural condition over the past twenty years.

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A brewing social phenomenon to motivate positive change.

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A brewing social phenomenon: the power of groups to motivate positive changes.

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An insider's story of unrelenting sexual harassment and sexism from the 1950s to the 2010s as a young woman scratching her way up in a male-dominated world, from farm laborer to PhD scientist to corporate executive--and a call to action for those who wish to become champions for others.

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Living Off-grid in Wales examines the new policy context for off-grid rural development by contrasting the policy approach with the activist version of going off-grid.

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An exploration of the psychological effects - the pleasures, benefits and disbenefits - of computer games.

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A mothers memoir about the complicated relationship between herself and her daughtera high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities.

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What does masculinity add up to in the 21st century

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Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation.

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In essays written with humor and wit, Kendrick reimagines what it means to be a good black womanfrom women choosing never to have children to mothers regretting their choice to have them, from being a lonely black atheist to conquering loneliness as a single woman in a foreign countryand, in the process, challenges the expectation that black women serve as noble martyrs or sacrificial lambs.

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Based on in-depth research with divorced Muslim women, community leaders and local religious authorities, this book reveals the complexities facing Muslim women in negotiating family expectations, cultural norms and traditional Islamic laws.

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Presents an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. This title also re-examines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.

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Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics examines filmmakers' 'return to work' by the late 1990s, focusing on how they positioned the practice as a privileged point of articulation between aesthetics, politics and ethics, where work, precarity and activism could be addressed anew.

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A powerfully inspiring and unflinchingly honest story of how best-selling author and abuse recovery expert Beverly Engel made her way in the worldin spite of her mothers neglect and constant criticism, being sexually abused at nine, and raped at twelve.