Category - Social Science
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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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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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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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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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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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The World Without Us
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Time #1 Nonfiction Book* An Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book *A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circl...
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Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases-San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95Original price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /"The maps themselves are things of beauty."—The New York Times Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with th...
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The Women's Atlas
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The most up-to-date global perspective on how women are living today across continents and cultures In this completely revised and updated fifth ...
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to ex...
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the...
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, "refreshing, and very useful" (The Washington Post) follow-...
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Armas, Germenes Y Acero / Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Hace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el culti...
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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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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative,...
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Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.We live in the city of men....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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