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Daisy Hernández
Citizenship

A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?"How did 'Give me your tired, your poor…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

lieferbar ab 24.2.2026.

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Guillermina Altomonte
Chasing Independence

How independence works as an unquestioned ideal for aging in America---and why it is never quite realizedIn twenty-first century America, as people live longer than ever before, it's taken for granted tha…

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Miriam D Sealock
Violent Crime in America

Does the presence of surveillance cameras curtail violent crime? Did Covid-19 shutdowns negatively impact violent criminal activity? Does violence in entertainment media contribute to violent crime?This r…

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Andrew Lison
100% Utilization

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growt…

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Lucy Schiller
Aging Out

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has …

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The Slow Death of the Death Penalty

"The book is a postmortem examination of what has "killed" the death penalty in states across the country"--

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Sohail Jannesari
The Migrant Art of Coping

Looks at the intersecting worlds of sanctuary-seeking and mental health

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Keith K Miyake
The Racial Environmental State

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state This book delivers a bold rethinking of how race, environment, and state power are entangled. At its …

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Inequality Around the World

This authoritative two-volume set explores and explains the extent and roots of socioeconomic inequality both within and across nations. Both volumes focus on examining factors that shape the dimensions a…

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Dan Collyns
Blood Gold

A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world's biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse.

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Andrea Louise Campbell
Taxation and Resentment

Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practiceMost Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich to pay more. But the specific tax policies that most fa…

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Bruce Berglund
The Moscow Playbook

An eye-opening account of how Russia's leaders have used sports as a political tool to solidify their global power"Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than a hundred political slogans.&qu…

lieferbar ab 20.1.2026.

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Brodie Ramin
Written in Blood

Written in Blood is an urgent exploration of how disasters happen -- and how they can be prevented.Award-winning author and physician Brodie Ramin, trained in prevention through his work in primary care a…

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Marthe Achtnich
Mobility Economies in Europe's Borderlands

"Tracing migrants' journeys through Libya to Malta, Marthe Achtnich offers a rich, multi-sited ethnography that foregrounds the voices of migrants in Libya and Europe's borderlands. Highlighting how …

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

lieferbar ab 27.2.2026.

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Valerian Rodrigues
Ambedkar's Political Philosophy

This book engages with B R Ambedkar's primary works in both English and Marathi and the debates around them, positioning them in the South Asian context. A critical exploration of Ambedkar's political the…

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Ruha Benjamin
Imagination

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? …

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Eugenio Petrovich
A Quantitative Portrait of Analytic Philosophy

On the margins of philosophy.- Theoretical frameworks.- The research object.- Structure and dynamics of analytic philosophy.- Knowledge accumulation in analytic philosophy.- The social space of analytic p…

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Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America

Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as …

lieferbar ab 10.3.2026.

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