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Rebecca Neusteter
911, What's Your Emergency?

A groundbreaking history and critique of a little-explored aspect of American law enforcement: the often deadly 911 emergency response system The world knows George Floyd as the man whose murder launched …

lieferbar ab 15.9.2026.

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Michelle Jackson
The Division of Rationalized Labor

Specialization should make workers perform an ever-narrower range of tasks. Yet evidence shows that many specialized occupations have grown more complex. Michelle Jackson untangles this paradox, arguing t…

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Po-Yi Hung,
Routes of Taiwan Tea

Demonstrates how a popular commodity has reshaped borders, traditions, and geopolitics From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan's teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested …

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

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Jessica Pykett
Governing Global Emotions

What goes wrong when emotions get turned into digital data to be measured, monitored and managed.Data from facial emotion recognition, brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, global emotion surveys an…

lieferbar ab 16.6.2026.

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Matthew Jerome Schneider
Serving the Street

Volunteering is typically thought of as an act of altruism, yet there are power dynamics embedded in volunteer-service recipient relationships, especially when volunteers operate from privileged positions…

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Emily Hong
Borderland Solidarity

Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism,…

lieferbar ab 18.8.2026.

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Kunihiro Kimura
Exploring Social Processes: Statistical Methods for Sociological Research

This book advocates an exploratory approach to survey data analysis, rather than confirmatory approaches, which many other textbooks explicitly or implicitly recommend. Most survey data, especially attitu…

lieferbar ab 13.7.2027.

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Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions

Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions , volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building…

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Understanding Poverty Through Lived Experiences

Within the last few years, COVID-19, environmental disasters, the housing affordability crisis, increased homelessness, and inflation have brought poverty in the United States into sharper focus. Gaining …

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Kathleen Tierney
Disasters

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This im…

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Rebecca M Rodriguez Carey
Birth Behind Bars

"Birth Behind Bars provides a rare yet intimate portrait into the lives of pregnant women in prison providing critical insight into how incarceration transforms pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, show…

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Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cit…

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Rina Bliss
What's Real about Race?

Biologically, race does not exist. But in our social world, it remains decidedly important. Mainstream scientists embrace these truths, yet misinformation about human variation and genetics persists in ou…

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Monique Couvson
Black STATS

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening---and frequently myth-busting---facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Ta…

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Monique Couvson
Black STATS

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening---and frequently myth-busting---facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Ta…

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Juyeon Park
Families for Mobility

Families for Mobility documents elite Korean transnational families, focusing on how they use elite education abroad as a tool for class reproduction. Drawing on interviews with parents and children at el…

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Kate Lockwood Harris
Transforming Trauma

Just like people can be traumatized, so too can organizations. Transforming Trauma not only notices how responses to trauma show up in organizational practices and processes, but how to change them. Altho…

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K Bruce Newbold
Population Geography

This full-color text offers a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding students in the tools and techniques that are used to describe and understand population concepts. Arguing that …

lieferbar ab 3.9.2026.

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Juyeon Park
Families for Mobility

Families for Mobility documents elite Korean transnational families, focusing on how they use elite education abroad as a tool for class reproduction. Drawing on interviews with parents and children at el…

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Fernando Haddad,
The Excluded Third

The Excluded Third: Contribution to a Dialectical Anthropology is a wide-ranging study of the relationship between biology and the Humanities.In this book*,*Fernando Haddad responds to the new forays from…

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