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Culture Studies

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App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

Gardner Howard, Davis Katie

ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...

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General

On the Run Fugitive Life in an American City

Goffman Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780226136714, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillanc...

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Education

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Gender Studies

Sexual Fields Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life

Green Adam Isaiah

ISBN: PB: 9780226084992, ISBN: HB: 9780226084855, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas...

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Women Studies

Sport

Half-Marathon: A Complete Guide for Women

Galloway Barbara, Galloway Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9781841263663, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2013
200 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 59 black&white illus., 10 tables

Author of the best-seller "Marathon: You can do it!", Galloway now offers together with his wife a state-of-the-art book on the highly popular half-marathon distance especially for women. Jeff's trademarked run-walk-run method has helped hundreds of...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life

Gornick Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm

"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...

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Law

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Three and a Half Minute Transaction Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design

Gulati Mitu, Scott Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226924380, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 7 line illus.

Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu...

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Culture Studies

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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...

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Christianity

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Seeking the Straight and Narrow Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America

Gerber Lynne

ISBN: PB: 9780226288123, ISBN: HB: 9780226288116, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals – and that God will provide reliable paths towar...

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Women Studies

Sport

Running and Fat Burning for Women

Galloway Jeff, Galloway Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9781841262437, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, May 2011
200 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 30 colour and black&white illus.

This book explains the process of fat deposition and burning, and provides a plan to gain control over both sides of the issue: intake and burn-off. Whether one is getting off the couch or has been exercising for years, there is advice for improving...

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