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Unwanted Child The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany

Harrington Joel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102054, ISBN: HB: 9780226317274, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones, 9 line drawings

The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society".The Unwanted Child" skill...

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Black Oxford The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars

Roberts Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781908493835, Signal Books, October 2013
104 pp., 21.4x14.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alu...

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How to be a Good Mother-in-Law

ISBN: HB: 9781851240821, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Everyone knows a joke about mothers-in-law, but what are the golden rules you need to become a popular one? The authors of this pioneering guide, first published in the 1930s, aimed to dramatically improve relationships for all the family with sound...

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How to be a Good Motorist

ISBN: HB: 9781851240807, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 9 black&white illus.

How should a motorist converse with the police? Should you switch off your headlights when another car approaches? What parts of the engine can you fix with a sheet of emery paper, insulating tape and copper wire? The 1920s heralded the age of motori...

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Politics of Belonging Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration

Masuoka Natalie, Junn Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226057163, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 15 tables

The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Questions about who should be admitted and what benefits should be afforded to new members of the polity are among the most divisive and controversial contemporary political i...

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Global Spread of Fertility Decline Population, Fear, and Uncertainty

Winter Jay, Teitelbaum Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139068, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. Th...

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Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England

Andrew Donna T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...

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Black Picket Fences, Second Edition Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Pattillo Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226021195, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's "Black Picket Fences" explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a...

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American Allegory Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination

Black Hawk Hancock

ISBN: PB: 9780226043104, ISBN: HB: 9780226043074, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm

"Perhaps",‌ wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power". ‌ As Ellison noted then, many of our most munda...

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Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Pachirat Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...

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