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Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish

Smith Marquard

ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.

Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...

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Political Science

Women Studies

End of Equality

Campbell Beatrix

ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life

Gornick Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm

"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...

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Current Affairs

General

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

Education

Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools

Rosenfeld Gorsetman Chaya, Maryles Sztokman Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...

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General

Business & Economics

Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Pachirat Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...

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Law

General

Everyday Law on the Street City Governance in an Age of Diversity

Valverde Mariana

ISBN: PB: 9780226921907, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm

Toronto prides itself on being "the world's most diverse city", and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, lim...

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Women Studies

Biography & Memoires

Elizabeth and Hazel Two Women of Little Rock

Margolick David

ISBN: PB: 9780300187922, Yale University Press, September 2012
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 33 black&white illus.

<p>The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white...

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Business & Economics

Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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General

Political Science

End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America

Kinder Donald R., Dale-Riddle Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780300175196, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in fact an important factor...

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