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Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the “visual” in defining the kaleidoscope…
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Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almo…
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This distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. The exper…
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This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social analy…
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Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer be…
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