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Losing It In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain...

Miller William Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188233, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the opening pages of this irresistible book, William Ian Miller warns, "the general themes... may strike some as glum and grim". Yet humour leavens each page as he confronts old age, its humiliations, and its undeniable hardships. Taking an enti...

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Architecture

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From Camp to City Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara

Herz Manuel

ISBN: HB: 9783037782910, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
512 pp., 24x17.6 cm, 1172 illus.

"From Camp to City" examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western Sahara have been living for 35 years,...

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Architecture

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In the Life of Cities Parallel Narratives of the Urban

Mostafavi Mohsen

ISBN: HB: 9783037783023, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
376 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 286 illus.

What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are...

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Culture Studies

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How to be a Good Lover

ISBN: HB: 9781851242801, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 14 black&white illus.

How should men and women embark on a new relationship? Is it acceptable to flirt? Should one ever kiss in a canoe? What is the ideal age gap for marriage? What gifts are appropriate for a fiancee? How should one announce an engagement? Aimed at the r...

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America

Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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Contagion How Commerce Has Spread Disease

Harrison Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300123579, Yale University Press, August 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Disease and commerce are among the most powerful forces that have shaped the modern world. They are also closely intertwined: over many centuries trade has been the single most important factor in the spread of diseases throughout the world. In this...

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Political Science

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Building Resilience Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012889, ISBN: HB: 9780226012872, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 tables, 20 line illus.

Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid provided by...

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Moral Neoliberal Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

Muehlebach Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226545400, ISBN: HB: 9780226545394, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neol...

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Culture Studies

Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...

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Culture Studies

Beauty and the Beast

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226789866, ISBN: HB: 9780226789859, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 36 halftones

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their b...

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