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Culture Studies

Dexter Lord Gail, Blankenberg Ngaire

ISBN: PB: 9781941963036, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
272 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm

"Soft power" emerged as a concept in the late twentieth century to describe international relations based not on military or economic strength, but on influence. While the resources of "hard power" are tangible – force and finance – soft power resour...

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Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening

Timmermans Stefan, Buchbinder Mara

ISBN: PB: 9780226273617, ISBN: HB: 9780226924977, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...

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Criminology

Code of the Suburb Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

Jacques Scott, Wright Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226164113, ISBN: HB: 9780226164083, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere – even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools – and teenage users in t...

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Fatal Isolation The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

Keller Richard C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226251110, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 2 line drawings

In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the...

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Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Klinenberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226276182, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Mete...

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Organizing Locally How the New Decentralists Improve Education, Health Care, and Trade

Fuller Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226246543, ISBN: HB: 9780226246406, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. But the fact i...

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Mixed Messages Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society

Paul Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226240862, ISBN: HB: 9780226240725, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As social and symbolic animals – animals with language and systems of signs – humans are informed by two different kinds of heritage, one biological, the other cultural. Scholars have tended to study our genetic and symbolic lineages separately, but...

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Everyday Troubles The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict

Emerson Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226237947, ISBN: HB: 9780226237800, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

From roommate disputes to family arguments, trouble is inevitable in interpersonal relationships. In "Everyday Troubles", Robert M. Emerson explores the beginnings and development of the conflicts that occur in our relationships with the people we re...

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Enigma of Diversity The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice

Berrey Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226246239, ISBN: HB: 9780226246062, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That's a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era – but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contempor...

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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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