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AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

Smith Daniel Jordan

ISBN: PB: 9780226108834, ISBN: HB: 9780226108667, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equat...

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Job-Search Games Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences

Sharone Ofer

ISBN: PB: 9780226073538, ISBN: HB: 9780226073361, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Today 4. 7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it's above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent....

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Reasons of Conscience The Bioethics Debate in Germany

Sperling Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226924328, ISBN: HB: 9780226924311, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm

The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In "Rea...

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Political Science

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Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Swartz David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226925011, ISBN: HB: 9780226925004, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career,...

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Sign Language

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Human Right to Language Communication Access for Deaf Children

Siegel Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9781563685910, Gallaudet University Press, March 2013
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1982, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Amy Rowley, a deaf six-year-old, was not entitled to have a sign language interpreter in her public school classroom. Lawrence Siegel wholeheartedly disagrees with this decision in his new book "The...

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Africa

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Black Ranching Frontiers African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

Sluyter Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300179927, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 52 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the h...

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Political Science

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Disciplining the Poor Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Soss Joe, Fording Richard C., Schram Sanford F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226768779, ISBN: HB: 9780226768762, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 1 table, 45 line illus.

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance – how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pu...

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Psychology

Not Under My Roof Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex

Schalet Amy T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226736198, ISBN: HB: 9780226736181, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far l...

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Criminology

At Home in the Law How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy

Suk Jeannie

ISBN: PB: 9780300172621, Yale University Press, October 2010
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic a...

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Network Power The Social Dynamics of Globalization

Singh Grewal David

ISBN: PB: 9780300151343, Yale University Press, June 2009
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; for others, it is the unfortunate outcome of imperson...

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