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Body Toning for Women Bodyweight Training / Nutrition / Motivation: 21 Days is All it Takes

Wyndham-Read Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9781782550716, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2016
208 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 3 colour illus., 246 black&white illus., 3 tables

Every woman wants to work on some part of her body. Whether you are looking to shape your arms, bust, back, abs, bottom, or legs, Lucy Wyndham-Read's book on body toning will help you get the perfect gym body. Within just 21 days, you will see notice...

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Anthropology

Banking on Words The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance

Appadurai Arjun

ISBN: PB: 9780226318776, ISBN: HB: 9780226318639, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008 – while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking – was,...

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Black Metropolis A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

Drake St. Clair, Cayton Horace R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226253213, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
912 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, "Black Metropolis" remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America...

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Becoming a Marihuana User

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226332901, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
88 pp., 15.2x10 cm, 6 halftones

OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz musician, expert on "deviant" culture, and founding NORM...

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Contemporary Art

Women Studies

Babe

Collins Petra

ISBN: HB: 9783791381039, Prestel Publishing, May 2015
192 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 166 colour illus.

Curated by one of today's most sought-after photographers, this collection of work by young female artists captures the voices and visions that are shaping a generation of women. 21-year-old Canadian photographer Petra Collins is leading the way in...

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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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Gender Studies

Business of Sex

Murthy Laxmi, Seshu Saraswathi

ISBN: HB: 9789381017814, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2014
236 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, "The Business of Sex" corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and...

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Education

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges

Mahmud Lilith

ISBN: PB: 9780226095868, ISBN: HB: 9780226095721, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: There ar...

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Europe

Black Oxford The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars

Roberts Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781908493835, Signal Books, October 2013
104 pp., 21.4x14.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alu...

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