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Steven Carl Quay
The Code as Witness

The origin of COVID-19 has sparked relentless debate since 2020. But if we follow the science, the evidence for a lab-based origin is undeniable. In this book, we delve into the virus's genome, tracing co…

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Infrastructuring Assemblies

An investigation into social and political assembly and how urban infrastructure can support pluralism, social resilience, and democracy.Infrastructuring Assemblies investigates the phenomenon of social a…

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Sarah Jones
Disposable

In this "barn burner of a book" (The New York Times Book Review) New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones blends personal stories and in-depth reporting to expose the harsh reality of America…

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Miles Kenney-Lazar
Socializing Land

Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital investment into land, especially for the establishment…

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Mason B Williams
City of Fortune

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The city reemerged from the as…

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Crossing Lines

Across Europe and North America, far-right parties have strategically framed immigration as a threat to national identity and security, capitalizing on public anxieties around cultural change and economic…

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Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Born to Rule

The Economist , Best Books of 2024 The Times , Best Ideas Books of 2024 A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like …

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Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec
The Journey Ahead

This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to be…

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How to End Family Policing

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make our communities less safe for them. Based on decades of shared organizing, s…

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How to End Family Policing

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make our communities less safe for them. Based on decades of shared organizing, s…

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Jonathan M Metzl
What We've Become

Jonathan M. Metzl has long been the forefront of a movement advocating for American gun reform as a matter of public health but in 2018 a racially charged mass shooting in Nashville led him on a path towa…

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Clare Saunders
Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory

Are environmentalists in Britain part of a transnational movement or are they tactically and ideologically distinct? How can we understand the environmental movement within the context of social movement …

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James M Gustafson
The Lion and the Sun

Why did the place of formerly powerful Eurasian land empires, like that of Iran, change so dramatically in global affairs over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? This book explores thi…

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Christina J Cross
Inherited Inequality

A groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes.Ever since Daniel Patri…

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Asad Asad
Engage and Evade

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants---but also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out li…

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Making Levantine Cuisine

From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shi…

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Refugee Governance in the Arab World

The eBook editions of this book are available as open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Sciences Po.The Arab region has played an oversized rol…

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Stephen Starring Grant
Mailman

"Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old homet…

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Matt Buttrick
Moreish

A celebratory feast of all things food, Moreish chews the fat with a range of foodie insiders to unpick the codes of consumption.

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Katherine A Foss
Capturing Covid

"When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next …

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