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Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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BUG Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution

Heuer Christopher John

ISBN: PB: 9781563683572, Gallaudet University Press, September 2007
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"What you have in your hands is a bomb. But it is the kind you need to hold on to for dear life, not run away from" – From the Foreword, John Lee Clark Christopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before "being able to hear a lot as a kid...

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Through Deaf Eyes A Photographic History of an American Community

Baynton Douglas, Gannon Jack R., Lindquist Bergey Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781563683473, Gallaudet University Press, April 2007
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour photos

In 2001, the Smithsonian Institution presented the landmark photographic exhibition "History Through Deaf Eyes", representing nearly 200 years of United States deaf history. Drawing heavily on the extensive archives at Gallaudet University, the curat...

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Sociology in America A History

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090955, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
880 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 9 maps, 6 tables

Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that s...

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Mathematical Models of Social Evolution A Guide for the Perplexed

McElreath Richard, Boyd Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226558271, ISBN: HB: 9780226558264, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 55 line drawings, 99 tables, 41 boxes

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavio...

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