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Methods for Transdisciplinary Research A Primer for Practice

Bergmann Matthias, Jahn Thomas, Knobloch Tobias, Krohn Wolfgang, Pohl Christian, Schramm Engelbert

ISBN: PB: 9783593396477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
295 pp., 21.5x14 cm

To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has recently come to the forefront. By integrating multiple disciplines as well as the expertise of partners from the societ...

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Islam

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Finding Mecca in America How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

Bilici Mucahit

ISBN: PB: 9780226049571, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 6 line illus.

The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America...

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Sign Language

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Deaf Children in China

Callaway Alison

ISBN: PB: 9781563683398, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To learn how Chinese parents raise their deaf children, Alison Callaway in 1994 conducted extensive research in the city of Nanjing. There, she interviewed the parents of 26 deaf children while also carefully analyzing a large collection of letters w...

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Sign Language

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Deaf Identities in the Making Local Lives, Transnational Connections

Breivik Jan-Kare

ISBN: PB: 9781563685903, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In his revolutionary new book, Jan-Kare Breivik profiles ten Norwegian Deaf people and their life stories within a translocal/transnational framework. Breivik notes that, unlike hearing people, who form their identities from familial roots and local...

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Sign Language

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Deaf Empowerment Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric

Jankowski Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781563685880, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Employing the methodology successfully used to explore other social movements in America, this meticulous study examines the rhetorical foundation that motivated Deaf people to work for social change during the past two centuries. In clear, concise p...

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Law

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Three and a Half Minute Transaction Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design

Gulati Mitu, Scott Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226924380, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 7 line illus.

Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu...

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Many Ways to Be Deaf International Variation in Deaf Communities

Monaghan Leila, Schmaling Constanze, Nakamura Karen, Turner Graham H.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685781, Gallaudet University Press, January 2013
338 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

The recent explosion of sociocultural, linguistic, and historical research on signed languages throughout the world has culminated in "Many Ways to Be Deaf", an unmatched collection of in-depth articles about linguistic diversity in Deaf communities...

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Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

Pierre Jemima

ISBN: PB: 9780226923031, ISBN: HB: 9780226923024, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking "The Predicament of Blackness" is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa...

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Culture Studies

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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...

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Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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