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A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption

This volume renews the study of corruption as 'embedded' in ongoing social relations. Instead of treating corruption as a universal phenomenon, A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption shows how c…

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Eiji Oguma
The System of Japanese Society

In developed countries, non-regular employment in the labor market is increasing and the gap between rich and poor is widening. Gender inequality in employment is also often an issue. Japan is no exceptio…

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Informal Cities

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While inf…

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Geography in the 21st Century

These 40 chronologically arranged entries examine the key events that have most profoundly shaped global society in the opening decades of the 21st Century.

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Jennifer Fleetwood
What We Talk about When We Talk about Crime

An examination of the increasingly public nature of crime and confession---from live-streamed offenses to Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview---by a noted writer & lecturer in criminology.Over the pas…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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Isabela Seong Leong Quintana
Urban Borderlands

"Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of Mexican and Chinese men, was met with …

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Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Home of the Happy

"On January 16, 1983, Aubrey LaHaye's body was found floating in the Bayou Nezpique. His kidnapping ten days before sparked "the biggest manhunt in the history of Evangeline Parish." But hi…

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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Samuel Sattin,
Side Quest

"Fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls and anyone wanting to know more about them, Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games to those played to…

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Penrose Halson
The Marriage Bureau LP

In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond…

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Mitsuo Ichikawa
Indigenous Peoples and Forests

African tropical rainforests are in rapid decline, and their conservation is an urgent priority. However, forest conservation efforts have typically neglected the rights of people like pygmies, who have l…

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Thomas Piketty,
Nature, Culture, and Inequality

"Originally published in French as Nature, culture et inâegalitâes: Une perspective comparative et historique in 2023 by Sociâetâe d'ethnologie, Nanterre, France"--Title page verso.

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Hannah Durkin
The Survivors of the Clotilda

NAMED A TOP BOOK OF 2024 BY AMAZON AND WASHINGTON POST"Hannah Durkin lets the enslaved speak for themselves, and they tell a story not only of unimaginable suffering but also of courage and survival.…

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Mitsuo Ichikawa
Indigenous Peoples and Forests

"African tropical rainforests are in rapid decline, and their conservation is an urgent priority. However, forest conservation efforts have typically neglected the rights of people like pygmies, who …

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Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute
After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

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The Historicity of International Politics

This book shows how historical trajectories have shaped international politics, covering a wide range of imperial and (post-) colonial settings. For scholars and advanced students of IR, historical sociol…

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Said Amir Arjomand
Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

"This is a fascinating account of a far too little known revolutionary tradition, essential reading for all those interested in the comparative study of revolutionary phenomena. The book is a major a…

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Chris Thornhill
A Sociology of Post-Imperial Constitutions

Covering the period from the eighteenth century to the present, A Sociology of Post-Imperial Constitutions combines global history and historical legal sociology to explain how democratic constitutions we…

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Alon Helled
Israel's National Historiography

The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias¿ historical and figurational sociology, the book examine…

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