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Remittance Landscape Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA

Lopez Sarah Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226202815, ISBN: HB: 9780226105130, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico – one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With "The Remittance Landscape", Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with th...

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Renegade Dreams Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Laurence Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226032719, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables

Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city" and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our foc...

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Criminology

Arresting Citizenship The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control

Lerman Amy E., Weaver Vesla M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137834, ISBN: HB: 9780226137667, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 figures, 5 tables

The numbers are staggering: One-third of America's adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before h...

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End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future

Lemos Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon

Lindemann Danielle J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.

Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...

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Criminology

Truth Machine The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

Lynch Michael, Cole Simon A., McNally Ruth, Jordan Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226498072, ISBN: HB: 9780226498065, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
416 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

DNA profiling – commonly known as DNA fingerprinting – is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable "truth machine" that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. Bu...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Hellfire Clubs Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300164022, Yale University Press, March 2010
250 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sen...

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Sign Language

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Language and the Law in Deaf Communities

Lucas Ceil

ISBN: HB: 9781563681431, Gallaudet University Press, September 2003
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Three attorneys and three linguistics scholars contribute five essays focusing on the intersection of language and law in deaf communities. Coverage includes the language problems of minorities in legal settings, the interrogation of deaf people, int...

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Military

Hungarians A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat

Lendvai Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781850656821, ISBN: HB: 9781850656739, Hurst Publishers, December 2002
572 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns' but it was not long before the Hungarians became stea...

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Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities

Lucas Ceil

ISBN: PB: 9781563681080, Gallaudet University Press, February 2001
246 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures

This collection offers a wide variety of fascinating studies that consider multicultural aspects among deaf people worldwide. Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner investigate variation in the use of gay, lesbian, and bisexual signs in the Deaf community; J...

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