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Asad Ghanem, Nohad Ali,
Violence and Crime Among the Palestinian Minority in Israel

In the last two decades the rates of crime and violence among the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel have increased dramatically. This book is the first to describe, analyze and understand this phenomeno…

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The Pacific Islands

"The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas exte…

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Elias Capello
Trans Geographies of Joy

Shows how trans activists confront the intersections of white supremacy and transphobiaTrans Geographies of Joy charts the stories of trans activists in Atlanta, focusing particularly on people of color, …

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Daniel Horowitz
On Retirement

How longer lives, greater prosperity, and policy shifts are reshaping aging and retirementOnce considered a period of frailty and physical decline, aging and retirement has transformed into a chapter of c…

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Water Powers

Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals---from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales---and environmental chan…

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Katrina Quisumbing King
Enduring Empire

"In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later, in 1946, P…

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Carol Hendrickson
Why Draw?

Why Draw? asks readers to experiment with different forms of mark-making as part of their field research in order to understand new theoretical and methodological perspectives in the social sciences.

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Gad Yair
This Is America

This Is America: Portrait of a Nation at 250 offers a bold, eye-opening journey into the cultural DNA of the United States. Drawing on three decades of research, thousands of miles of travel, and more tha…

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Hal Crowther
Bible Belt Blues

Like most progressive Southerners, Hal Crowther is decidedly angry about current social and political events, but few writers are more able than he to articulate the problems, the issues, and even the bit…

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Anna Bonnell Freidin
Birthing Romans

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politi…

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Lizzie Wade
Apocalypse

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • APublishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the YearA…

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Katrina Quisumbing King
Enduring Empire

"In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later, in 1946, P…

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Simone Murray
The Digital Future of English

The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies takes a refreshingly optimistic approach to the future of English studies by examining how digital technologies recast and expand understandings of wh…

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Amélie Allard
Community Politics of the Fur Trade

Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identitiesThe North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Améli…

lieferbar ab 10.3.2026.

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Tim Ingold
The Rise and Fall of Generation Now

Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine …

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Eileen O'Brien
Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts

"For activists working for racial justice for decades, the year 2020 stood out from the rest. More people seemed to care about racism than ever before. Due to this unprecedented surge, was anything m…

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Jane Borden
Cults Like Us

An author and culture journalist argues that doomsday beliefs, deeply rooted in American history, have shaped the nation's culture, from its fascination with heroism and consumerism to its susceptibility …

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Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic

Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianis…

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Pedro A López-García, Denisse L Argote
Determining Provenance from Compositional Data

Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing…

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Song Hou
A Chinese Discourse of Heritage

This Element presents an alternative approach to critical heritage studies by attending to forgotten or transformed cultural, historical ideas of heritage. It focuses on the Chinese term guji, one today p…

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