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Informal Cities

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While inf…

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Maureen L Walsh
Grieving Pregnancy

Grieving Pregnancy compares contemporary American Catholic and Japanese Buddhist memorial practices focused on miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion. Maureen L. Walsh demonstrates that while the memorial …

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Julia H Meszaros
Economies of Gender

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women's Labor explores the global dating industry, challenging stereotypes by examining how men seek "feminine capital" in in…

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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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Maureen L Walsh
Grieving Pregnancy

Grieving Pregnancy compares contemporary American Catholic and Japanese Buddhist memorial practices focused on miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion. Maureen L. Walsh demonstrates that while the memorial …

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Andrew Lakoff
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic

The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ¿ which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal…

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Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenshipexamines instances of collective struggle and (re)organization of social reproduction against the backdrop of the crisis that followed the international banking crash …

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Robert Garner
The Highs and Lows of Leicester City

This book explores the highs and lows of a remarkable last decade in the history of Leicester City. What was it like for a committed fan? How can it be explained? Along the way, among an array of topics, …

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Jesselyn Cook
The Quiet Damage

Crown

The "gripping" (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for …

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Rebecca M. Webster
In Defense of Sovereignty

In Defense of Sovereignty recounts the history of the Oneida Nation and its struggles for self-determination. Since the nation's removal from New York in the 1820s to what would become the state of Wiscon…

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John Carson
The Measure of Merit

A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear …

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Musa Al-Gharbi
We Have Never Been Woke

How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status---without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian---in theory. …

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Michelle Smith
Life's Work

The definitive story of Tara VanDerveer, Stanford women's basketball, and an unmatched legacy of excellenceBy the time Tara Vanderveer stepped down from nearly four decades at the helm of Stanford women's…

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Howard Wainer, Daniel H Robinson
Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness

How can admissions officers, employers, and scholarship committees maximize the accuracy of prediction of individual performance while minimizing adverse impact due to group differences? Testing offers a …

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Kevin Revier
Policing Pain

How the medicalization of addiction during the U.S. opioid crisis has driven mass incarceration and mass policing in rural and deindustrialized communitiesThe nationwide opioid public health emergency has…

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Taffany Lim
The Ripple Effects of College Prison Programs

Thirteen men sentenced to die by incarceration at a maximum-security prison pushed themselves to enroll in the first face-to-face bachelor's degree completion program for incarcerated students in the stat…

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Rose Korang-Okrah, Wendy Haight, Priscilla A Gibson
Supporting Women's Economic Enfranchisement

Access to property, homes, and natural resource-based assets is fundamental to women's adequate standard of living, economic independence, and political empowerment. Lack of direct access to property can …

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Charles A Sepulveda,
Native Alienation

"Despite their explicit goals of colonization and conversion, California missions are just beginning to receive more robust critical scholarly attention that centers Indigenous perspectives on their …

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Josh Owens
The Madness of Believing

An unvarnished and immersive dive into the world of conspiracy theories, propaganda, and disinformation from a former Infowars insider caught in the orbit of Alex Jones's madness.At twenty-four-years old,…

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Jared Stacy
Reality in Ruins

For anyone who has ever said, "It feels like we're living in different realities," an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of evangelical conspiracism.Conspiracy th…

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