By: Epperson, Matthew (EDT); Pettu
Hardcover | $65.00 | 9780190653095
Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides innovative concepts and concrete strategies for ushering in an era of decarceration -- a proactive and effective undoing of the era of mass incarceration. The text grapples with tough questions and takes up the...
By: Brown-Saracino, Japonica
Paperback | $38.00 | 9780226361253
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this novel ethnographic study of lesbian,...
By: Lippert, Amy Defalco
Hardcover | $40.95 | 9780190268978
Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies
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By: Olson, Liesl
Hardcover | $37.00 | 9780300203684
A fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement....
By: Fennell, Lee Anne (EDT); Keys,
Hardcover | $125.00 | 9781107164925
No area of law and policy is more central to our well-being than housing, yet research on the topic is too often produced in disciplinary or methodological silos that fail to connect to policy on the ground. This pathbreaking book, which features leading scholars from a range of academic fields,...
By: Raudenbush, Stephen W. et al
Paperback | $29.00 | 9780226456652
The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequalities and initiate opportunities for economic and...
By: Ransmeier, Johanna S.
Hardcover | $54.50 | 9780674971974
A robust trade in human lives thrived throughout North China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Whether to acquire servants, slaves, concubines, or children--or dispose of unwanted household members--families at all levels of society addressed various domestic needs by participating in...
By: Hyra, Derek S.
Paperback | $30.00 | 9780226449531
For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout...
By: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson
Paperback | $27.95 | 9780813564470
In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary...
By: Raikhel, Eugene
Paperback | $26.95 | 9781501703133
Critics of narcology--as addiction medicine is called in Russia--decry it as being backward, hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his...
By: Soyer, Michaela
Paperback | $34.95 | 9780520290457
Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. A Dream Denied delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the "American dream" narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago....
By: Silver, Daniel Aaron
Paperback | $40.00 | 9780226356990
Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the mix. These are all experiences created by a given...
By: Hoang, Kimberly Kay
| $29.95 | 9780520275577
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen,...
By: Eason, John M.
Paperback | $38.00 | 9780226410340
For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns...
By: Stuart, Forrest
Hardcover | $27.50 | 9780226370811
In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.
Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty...
By: Carr, E. Summerson (EDT); Lemp
Paperback | $34.95 | 9780520291799
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Wherever we turn, we see diverse things...
By: Atkinson, Niall
Hardcover | $89.95 | 9780271071190
From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern...
By: Dawdy, Shannon Lee
Paperback | $30.00 | 9780226351193
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose--that New Orleans's unique historic fabric sat in ruins, and we had lost one of the most...
By: Bogart, Michele H.
Hardcover | $27.50 | 9781780239224
Public sculpture is a major draw in today's cities, and nowhere is this more the case than in New York. In the Big Apple, urban art has become synonymous with the municipal "brand," highlighting the metropolis as vibrant, creative, tolerant, orderly, and above all, safe. Sculpture in Gotham...
By: Razsa, Maple
Paperback | $30.00 | 9780253015860
Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or globalization from below. Ethnographer Maple Razsa...
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