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  • Realising the city
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    Realising the city

    What is a city? How does it come into being? Who are the people involved? How are decisions made and what happens next? Realising the city provides multiple insider perspectives on this northern English city. Drawing on extensive fieldwork into the...
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  • Dreams of disconnection Dreams of disconnection
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    Dreams of disconnection

    Why must we live in homes and in communities built around a shared grid for our needs? For over a century, creative architects and urbanists have dreamed of self-sufficient living, whether to cut themselves off from society or in preparation for some...
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  • Border images, border narratives
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    Border images, border narratives

    This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and representation in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in border studies, the volume shows how borders, borderscapes, and migration are approached in public and private...
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  • Manchester
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    Manchester

    Using 60 different words that speak of the city, from bees to sewers, Manchester: something rich and strange offers a new way of thinking about this iconic post-industrial city. Twenty-three writers from diverse backgrounds offer their take on the...
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  • Black resistance to British policing Black resistance to British policing
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    Black resistance to British policing

    As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black Resistance to British Policing details the activism which made movements like Black Lives Matter possible. Elliott-Cooper analyses racism beyond prejudice and the interpersonal -...
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  • Environment, labour and capitalism at sea
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    Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

    This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by...
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  • French London
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    French London

    Who make up London's French 'community'? Why did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is (London-) Frenchness played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces? And what impact has Brexit had on French...
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    Personalised cancer medicine
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    Personalised cancer medicine

    Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to...
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  • The machinic city
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    The machinic city

    This book provides an original perspective on the role of performance art towards reflecting on contemporary urban life, with analyses in detail key projects of digitally meditated performance art in urban space from renowned artists. The...
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  • The power of pragmatism
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    The power of pragmatism

    This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is...
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  • Sanctuary cities and urban struggles
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    Sanctuary cities and urban struggles

    Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles makes the first sustained intervention into exploring how cities are challenging the primacy of the nation-state as the key guarantor of rights and entitlements. It brings together cutting-edge scholars of political...
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  • The social significance of dining out
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    The social significance of dining out

    The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England and systematically compares popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends...
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  • Stories from a migrant city
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    Stories from a migrant city

    This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity. Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a...
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    It's a London thing
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    It's a London thing

    This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's...
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  • Safe as houses Safe as houses
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    Safe as houses

    As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.Stuart Hodkinson has those answers...
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  • A brief history of thrift
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    A brief history of thrift

    This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel...
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  • Displacement
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    Displacement

    As an unprecedented number of people are displaced around the world, scholars continue to strive to make sense of what appear to be a series of constantly unfolding 'crises.' Drawing on research in a range of regions - from Latin...
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  • African Meditations
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    African Meditations

    An influential thinker's fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad The call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman...
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    On the Rural

    A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre's crucial but lesser-known writings on rural...
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    Man and Nature

    After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that...
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  • Build Bridges, Not Walls
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    Build Bridges, Not Walls

    Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision-and work toward-a bold new reality...
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    Dark Age America

    Forget the comfortable platitudes-this is our most likely future.After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of...
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  • Marxist Thought and the City
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    Marxist Thought and the City

    Henri Lefebvrereviews the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for analysis on the life andgrowth of the city, describing its transition from life under feudalism tomodern industrial capitalism. Now available in English, Marxist Thought andthe City...
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  • The end of Irish history?
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    The end of Irish history?

    Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. Since the 1990s, the apparently inescapable status of the 26 counties as an economic casualty has been dramatically reversed. In recent years, it has become commonplace for the...
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  • The Power of Hope
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    The Power of Hope

    In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely and innovative account,...
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  • The Great Leveler
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    The Great Leveler

    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows...
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    The Rise and Fall of American Growth

    In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But...
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    Coming Home to China

    In this enchanting volume, Tuan's childhood memories and musings on the places encountered during this homecoming are interspersed with new lectures about principles of human geography as well as the changing Chinese landscape. At the beginning of his...
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  • Seeking Spatial Justice
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    Seeking Spatial Justice

    In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja...
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    Finding Community

    Finding community is as critical as obtaining food and shelter, since the need to belong is what makes us human. The isolation and loneliness of modern life have led many people to search for deeper connection, which has resulted in a renewed interest in...
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  • Free Burma
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    Free Burma

    When the military's ruling party violently quashed Burma's pro-democracy movement, diplomatic condemnation quickly followed-to little effect. But when Burma's activists began linking the movement to others around the world, the result was dramatically...
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    Border Patrol Nation

    "In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics. . . ...
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    Random Maps
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    Random Maps

    A collection of entertaining and unusual maps and data that explain how the world works. What would the world be without maps? How would we orientate ourselves? How would we travel? How could we plan streets or entire cities? We encounter maps...
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