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Culture Studies

Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America

Tepper Steven J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226792873, ISBN: HB: 9780226792866, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
384 pp., 25x15 cm, 38 tables, 8 line illus.

In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art...

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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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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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Architecture

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Building Globalization Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China

Ren Xuefei

ISBN: PB: 9780226709819, ISBN: HB: 9780226709802, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 maps, 15 tables, 18 halftones

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network...

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Women Studies

Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights

Feldman Jan

ISBN: PB: 9781584659730, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional religious co...

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Psychology

Gender Studies

Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan's New Map of Love

Cooper Davis Peggy, Cooper Davis Lizzy

ISBN: HB: 9781906497699, Seagull Books, May 2011
300 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 halftones

In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the publication of that rev...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Christianity

Recruiting Young Love How Christians Talk about Homosexuality

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226410449, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 22.9x15.7 cm

In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides – from...

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Criminology

Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Preib Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226679822, ISBN: HB: 9780226679808, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
176 pp., 21.3x14 cm

Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department – a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the Ci...

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General

Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence Selected Papers

Tarde Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780226789712, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
332 pp., 20.1x13.5 cm

Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his cont...

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Europe

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Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Glaeser Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...

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