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Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226567631, ISBN: HB: 9780226567464, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 56 line drawings, 25 tables

Simply put, "Thinking Through Statistics" is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work. But don't let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Filled with the Spirit Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition

Lewin Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226537207, ISBN: HB: 9780226537177, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at it...

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Women Studies

Gloria's Voice The Story of Gloria Steinem, Feminist, Activist, Leader

Lewis Aura

ISBN: HB: 9781454926665, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2018
40 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.

Gloria Steinem started a movement that changed our world. This picture-book biography of the pioneering feminist brings the message of equality to a new generation. Using gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this biography of Gloria Steinem introduce...

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Computer Science & Internet

Mindful Tech How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

Levy David M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227017, ISBN: HB: 9780300208313, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.6x21 cm

From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overloa...

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Criminology

Crime in the Second World War Spivs, Scoundrels, Rogues and Worse

Legg Penny

ISBN: HB: 9781781220092, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, April 2017
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, heavlly illustrated

At a time of national emergency, the average person could be forgiven for thinking that crime rates would go down as everyone tried to help the war effort. However, the reality was that criminals saw the war as an opportunity to exploit the emergency...

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Thinking Through Methods A Social Science Primer

Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226431727, ISBN: HB: 9780226431697, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 2 tables

Sociological research is hard enough already – you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desp...

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Database of Dreams The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity

Lemov Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300209525, Yale University Press, November 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights p...

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Anthropology

Ethical Condition Essays on Action, Person, and Value

Lambek Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226292243, ISBN: HB: 9780226292106, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditi...

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Anthropology of the Name

Lazarus Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780857422309, Seagull Books, August 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Translated by Gila Walker for the first time into English, "Anthropology of the Name" is French thinker Sylvain Lazarus's response to the intellectual caesura of May 1968. Taking up thought, politics, and the name, Lazarus presents an original doctri...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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