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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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When your world is upended, how do you react Who do you become New York Timescolumnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in thisgorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories.

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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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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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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.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australias past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s.

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A detailed case-study on Shanghai, which looks into the future of a city in need of regeneration. Will be of interest to students of architecture and design, as well as those who want to know more about Shanghai.