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Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth. The Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretc...
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A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of ...
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The History of Thailand
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /The book provides a clear portrayal of Thailand's culture and society, and explains its significance in the history of human civilization, its st...
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Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Gripping. … Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabr...
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Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at the intersection of cultural and...
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Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at the intersection of cultural and...
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Famine in Cambodia: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /This book examines three consecutive famines in Cambodia during the 1970s, exploring both continuities and discontinuities of all three. Cambodia e...
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The Nature of Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The Nature of Revolution provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James A. Tyner repositions...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /How China's borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China's land borders, shared w...
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Women's Contributions to Development in West Africa: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $129.99 - Original price $129.99Original price $129.99$143.99$143.99 - $143.99Current price $143.99| /This book examines women's participation in social, economic and political development in West Africa. The book looks at women from the premise of ...
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High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa...
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High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa...
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York"The maps themselves are things of beauty . . . A document of it...
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. N...
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Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"Confronting the past" has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as...
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The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of t...
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Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world:...
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s ge...
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