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Becoming Mead The Social Process of Academic Knowledge

Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226171401, ISBN: HB: 9780226171371, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book "Mind, Self, and Society", which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however...

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Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters A New Paradigm

Hauser Peter C., Finch Karen L., Hauser Angela B.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685675, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 2 tables, 17 figures

"Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters: A New Paradigm" defines a new model that depends upon strong partnerships between the growing number of deaf experts and their interpreters. Editors Peter C. Hauser, Karen L. Finch, and Angela B. Hause...

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Crucibles of Black Empowerment Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington

Helgeson Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226130699, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer...

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Europe

Women Studies

Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

Herbert Amanda E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...

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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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Gender Studies

Gentlemen's Disagreement Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men

Hegarty Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226024585, ISBN: HB: 9780226024448, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line illus.

What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and of human sexuality in the United States have been increasingly common – and hotly debated. But rarely ha...

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Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community

Hill Joseph Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781563685453, Gallaudet University Press, December 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 photos

In a diverse signing community, it is not unusual to encounter a wide variety of expression in the types of signs used by different people. Perceptions of signing proficiency often vary within the community, however. Conventional wisdom intimates tha...

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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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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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