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Scenescapes How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Silver Daniel Aaron, Clark Terry Nichols

ISBN: PB: 9780226356990, ISBN: HB: 9780226356853, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 39 line drawings, 30 tables

Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his bar-stool, 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...

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Education

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Confucius Institutes Academic Malware

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780984201082, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2015
64 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

In recent years, "Confucius Institutes" have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and...

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Peak Oil Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture

Schneider-Mayerson Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226285436, ISBN: HB: 9780226285269, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

In recent years, the concept of "peak oil" – the moment when global oil production peaks and a train of economic, social, and political catastrophes accompany its subsequent decline – has captured the imagination of a surprisingly large number of Ame...

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Political Science

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Political Peoplehood The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities

Smith Rogers M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285092, ISBN: HB: 9780226284934, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of "political peoples", a category that is much broader and mo...

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Pauperland Poverty and the Poor in Britain

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045841, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland'. More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by May...

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Anthropology

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Modes of Uncertainty Anthropological Cases

Samimian-Darash Limor, Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226257105, ISBN: HB: 9780226257075, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 5 halftones

"Modes of Uncertainty" offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose un...

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Business & Economics

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Song of the Shirt The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045223, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordere...

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Poverty and the Quest for Life Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

Singh Bhrigupati

ISBN: PB: 9780226194547, ISBN: HB: 9780226194400, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 2 tables

The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers,...

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Health & Wellbeing

Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being

Stavrova Olga

ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm

Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...

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Ecology

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Arcadian America The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Sachs Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780300205886, Yale University Press, April 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus.

<p>Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidl...

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