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Not Under My Roof Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex
ISBN: PB: 9780226736198, ISBN: HB: 9780226736181, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm
For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far l...
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Men's Section Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World
ISBN: PB: 9781611680799, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2011
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this illuminating book, Elana Maryles Sztokman investigates a fascinating new sociological phenomenon: Orthodox Jewish men who connect themselves to egalitarian or quasi-egalitarian religious enterprises. She examines the men who have enabled thes...
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Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada
ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones
Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...
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£34,50
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Controlling Crime Strategies and Tradeoffs
ISBN: HB: 9780226115122, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 tables, 55 line illus.
Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished...
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Social Knowledge in the Making
ISBN: PB: 9780226092096, ISBN: HB: 9780226092089, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 4 line illus.
Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to "Social Knowledge in the...
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Interpretation and Social Knowledge On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226706740, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
216 pp., 22x14 cm, 12 line illus.
For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. "Interpretation and...
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Cultural Evolution How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226520445, ISBN: HB: 9780226520438, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 11 line illus.
Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian...
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I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers
ISBN: PB: 9780226109596, ISBN: HB: 9780226109589, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 22.4x15 cm
The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn't performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings whe...
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£72,00
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Privilege of Crisis Narratives of Masculinities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography, and Film
ISBN: PB: 9783593393995, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
320 pp., 22x14 cm
Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view".The Privilege of Crisis" d...
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Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America
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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