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New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

Halle David, Tiso Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table

The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...

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Asia

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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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Sign Language

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Signing and Belonging in Nepal

Hoffmann-Dilloway Erika

ISBN: HB: 9781563686641, Gallaudet University Press, June 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 3 photos

While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framewor...

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Methods That Matter Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

Hay M. Cameron

ISBN: PB: 9780226328669, ISBN: HB: 9780226328522, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 15 figures, 10 tables

To do research that really makes a difference – the authors of this book argue – social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, "Methods that...

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Seductions of Quantification Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

Engle Merry Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226261287, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Y...

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America

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Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities

Nightingale Carl H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...

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In Our Own Hands Essays in Deaf History, 1780-1970

Greenwald Brian H., Murray Joseph J.

ISBN: PB: 9781563686603, Gallaudet University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos, 4 tables

This collection of new research examines the development of deaf people's autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. Covering the period of 1780-1970, the essays in this collec...

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Europe

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Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Music

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Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin

Fairclough Pauline

ISBN: HB: 9780300217193, Yale University Press, April 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censor...

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Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society

Krasovic Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...

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