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Eviatar Zerubavel
Small Steps and Giant Leaps

In Small Steps and Giant Leaps, Eviatar Zerubavel explores how categorizing affects our perception of distance through "The Neil Armstrong Effect," the cognitive tendency to exaggerate perceived…

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Edward M. Epstein
Race, Real Estate and Education

Philadelphia's urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, which re-envisioned the city as a residential enclave, were an early example of gentrification. In West Philadelphia in the 1960s, a coalition of univers…

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Donatella Della Porta, Stella Christou
The Contentious Politics of Global Health Movements

While much research has addressed the regressive anti-vax protests, this Element focuses on campaigns by progressive social movements to promote the development of vaccines for Covid-19 and ensure their e…

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Jackson Pind
Students by Day

McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

The atrocities of the residential school system in Canada are amply documented. Less well-known is the history of day schools, which some two hundred thousand Indigenous youth attended.The Curve Lake Indi…

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Warscapes

War Culture

What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of co…

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Renee Laurel Pastel
War in Pieces

War in Pieces considers media representations of the first phase of the "War on Terror," set between 2001 and 2013. The book argues that the central figures around which narratives of the confli…

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Yoshio Sugimoto
An Introduction to Japanese Society

An Introduction to Japanese Society provides an engaging introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. The text examines the diverse nature of contemporary Japanese…

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Lucy M. Long
Sweet, Tart, and Golden

Heartland Foodways

Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype of their culture and heritage. Lucy M. Long examines the ubiquitous fruit's place in reg…

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Damon Root
Emancipation War

Speaking to a fractured country for the first time as president, Abraham Lincoln endorsed a constitutional amendment designed to permanently safeguard slavery in every state in which the institution alrea…

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Daniel Gross
Unions of Our Own

An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or even imp…

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Abril Liberatori
Transnational Italians and the Culture of Everyday Life

McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History

Departing from conventional community-based histories, this innovative work examines how immigrant identities are transformed into transnational ones. Focusing on families from the Campania region of Ital…

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Heng Zhao, Peter Ho
The Tolerance of Informality

Elements in Global Development Studies

Today's resurgence of global strife, polarization and neo-nationalism is unprecedented in intensity since the end of the Cold War. Against the backdrop of such dramatic changes, there is anxiety leading m…

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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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Caroline Ruiner, Mona-Maria Bardmann
Soziologie

Diese leicht verständliche Einführung in die Soziologie bietet einen idealen Einblick in die Grundzüge der Soziologie sowie einen Überblick über Methoden, Theorien und Teildisziplinen des Fachs. Was ist S…

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Public Interest in Criminal Prosecution in the Modern Era

Contributors from across the globe investigate how criminal justice systems grapple with the tension between procedural fairness, institutional efficiency, and the general welfare of the public. Drawing o…

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Raewyn Connell, Tristan Bridges
Gender

How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global po…

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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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Zack Davisson
Kaibyo

Drawing on centuries of legends, woodblock prints, ghost stories, and theatrical traditions, Zack Davisson's Kaibyo uncovers the many forms that Japan's enchanted felines take, from shapeshifting trickste…

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Liina-Ly Roos
The Not-Quite Child

New Directions in Scandinavian Studies

Examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchiesFigures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: t…

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Hector Amaya
The Economy of Anonymity

We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wi…

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