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Gender Studies

Making Kin not Population Reconceiving Generations

Clarke Adele, Haraway Donna

ISBN: PB: 9780996635561, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, May 2018
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs...

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Protest. The Aesthetics of Resistance

ISBN: PB: 9783037785607, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2018
448 pp., 24x16 cm, 199 illus.

"Protest." presents and reflects on present and past forms of protest and looks at marginalized communities' practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives. The publication shows how protest draws on irony, subversion, and provocation fr...

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Accounting for Capitalism The World the Clerk Made

Zakim Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226977973, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of thi...

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Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives

Ferdowsian Hope

ISBN: HB: 9780226475936, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few things get our compassion flowing like the sight of suffering. But our response is often shaped by our ability to empathize with others. Some people respond to the suffering of only humans or to one person's plight more than another's. Others rea...

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Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent

Beauregard Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535388, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress wi...

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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour

Tinti Peter, Reitano Tuesday

ISBN: PB: 9781849049535, ISBN: HB: 9781849046800, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
352 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and encouraged by ruthless professional criminal networks that earn billions of...

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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands

Ourednicek Martin, Jichova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...

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Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s

Carty Breda

ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos

This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...

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