Digital Liberty Power, Wealth and the Influence Machine
ISBN: PB: 9781915054111, Legend Times Group, University of Buckingham Press, July 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
"Digital Liberty" explores the imminent convergence of three pivotal themes: data, artificial intelligence and society's intricate social graph, and wars of a looming crisis that threatens to challenge the very foundations of liberal democracies. Two...
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£19.99
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Thank You Mr Crombie Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British
ISBN: HB: 9781911723004, Hurst Publishers, May 2024
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Reflections on migration, race and British society since the 1960s, from a journalist who made history as the BBC's first non-white editor. Mihir Bose, born in Kolkata shortly before Indian independence in 1947, still feels e...
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£25.00
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Modern Man in the Making
ISBN: HB: 9783037786765, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2024
160 pp., 26,6x21,2 cm, 100 illus.
Otto Neurath's famous "Modern Man in the Making", first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 onwards, Neurath and his team had worked on...
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£60.00
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Backbone of the Nation Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
ISBN: PB: 9780300277906, Yale University Press, March 2024
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families. Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in Br...
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£11.99
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Lifeworlds in Crisis Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands
ISBN: PB: 9781911723226, Hurst Publishers, January 2024
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Based on two decades of fieldwork, an anthropologist's revealing exploration of conflict, displacement and cooperation at the margins of the state. The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundr...
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£22.00
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Extreme Britain Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation
ISBN: HB: 9781787389465, Hurst Publishers, December 2023
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Drawing on interviews with extremists, this timely study explores the relationship between gendered culture and political radicalism in a polarised Britain. Young women bound for Islamic State, or "Free Speech" protests for To...
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£45.00
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Death Glitch How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9780300248272, Yale University Press, November 2023
272 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death. Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at pres...
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£27.50
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Picking Sides Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army
ISBN: PB: 9781787388178, Hurst Publishers, November 2023
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Argues that an understanding of the origins of ethnic politics in Nigeria requires a rigorous historical and sociological study of the ethnicisation of the colonial army. Nigeria's colonial history matters. It shaped the desti...
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£30.00
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Mobility / Society Society Seen through the Lens of Mobilities
ISBN: PB: 9783037787366, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2023
352 pp., 24,1x16,5 cm, 150 colour illus.
The way things flow: exploring the movement of bodies, data and goods. Mobility shapes society in countless ways. Looking at society from the perspective of mobility reveals that its key moments of development coincide with the removal of obstacles...
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£36.00
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Darkly Radiant Vision The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK
ISBN: HB: 9780300264524, Yale University Press, September 2023
632 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed importance in American life, and it remains ongoing. So Gary Dorrien argues in his groundbreaking trilogy of books on the history of Black social Christianity. Following his Grawemeyer Award-winni...
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£40.00
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