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Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the s...
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban,...
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Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants f...
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Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgot...
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Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$96.99$96.99 - $96.99Current price $96.99| /A rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban orderUntil the ye...
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Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin...
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A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A Global Idea outlines how youth--as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses--became a prominent social and political cat...
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A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /A Global Idea outlines how youth--as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses--became a prominent social and political cat...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges t...
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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges t...
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The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul displays how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul--the...
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Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State-Society Relations
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China examines the key mechanisms operating at the grassroots level in China that contribute to urban development ...
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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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From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Illuminating the complex processes of China's uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this bo...
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Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized...
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Christians in the City of Hong Kong: Chinese Christianity in Asia's World City
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Christians in the City of Hong Kongtells the story of a multi-faceted, constantly evolving Christianity in a vibrant metropolis that has always bee...
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The Significance of Chinatown Development to a Multicultural America: An Exploration of the Houston Chinatowns
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The Houston Chinatown's dramatic transformation from a Chinese enclave decades ago to a continually expanding multiethnic boomtown today contrasts ...
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Brown and Gay in La: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association The stories of second-generation immigrant g...
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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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Humans of New York
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Based on the blog with more than four million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capt...
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