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Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflect...

In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internati...

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today, half the world's population is urb...

In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internati...

LINDEN ARCHIVES is a strictly limited edition, selected archival work capturing the 1990s LGBTQ+ club, pub and Pride scene across the UK, from Brig...

This book provides a breadth of innovative and impactful research in the field of telecommunications led by women investigators. Topics covered inc...

OUT & ABOUT WITH LINDEN: A Queer Archive of the North is a selected archival work capturing the 1990s LGBTQ+ club and pub scene across the nort...

Sociology of Sexualities is an insightful exploration of sexuality through a sociological lens, offering a comprehensive understanding of sexualiti...

Traversing heritage across three continents, this poignant coming-of-age novel chronicles the enduring presence of systemic racism and the resistan...

This book presents the first national study of the practice of polygamy undertaken amongst Malay Muslims, contextualised within the broader social,...

This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work.  A huge body of discourse is av...

The Druze and the Maronites, arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon, have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah...

Exploring the physical, embodied landscape of the military-peace complex in AfghanistanThis book focuses on the military and statebuilding componen...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflect...

So much of great literature centres on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one canno...

The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th-ce...

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effec...

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian citiesdeveloped and developing, large and smalland their urban development. Inve...

Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we c...

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the As...

Warrick Dunn was only eighteen when his mother, a Baton Rouge police officer, was shot and killed. Yet somehow he managed to enroll at Florida Stat...

This book analyses case studies of heritage-rich cities that hosted mega-events to discuss emerging challenges, controversies, and accomplishments....

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out...

The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished t...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human right...