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Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Reid Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780226409214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and ma...

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Women Studies

Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica

Rivers-Moore Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...

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Jewish Studies

Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Shilo Margalit

ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...

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Gender Nonconformity and the Law

Yuracko Kimberly A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300125856, Yale University Press, March 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act's scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination b...

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Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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Getting Your Way Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226394770, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Getting other people to do what we want is a useful skill for anyone. Whether you're seeking a job, negotiating a deal, or angling for that big promotion, you're engaged in strategic thought and action. In such moments, you imagine what might be goin...

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Generations and Collective Memory

Corning Amy, Schuman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226282664, ISBN: HB: 9780226282527, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 34 line drawings, 15 tables

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuma...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Women Studies

Girls Guide to Basic Survival

Johannesen Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781742575681, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2015
192 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm

"A Girl's Guide to Basic Survival" is every girl's essential reference guide of all those things your mother never taught you – or that you chose not to listen to. It's a practical hands-on, down-to-earth guide focusing on those every day household p...

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Genderscapes Revisioning Natural Resource Management

Krishna Sumi

ISBN: PB: 9789383074754, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
476 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

Even in a realm that would seem to be as far removed from issues of gender as natural resource management, gender bias is pernicious and persistent, especially in India. Genderscapes looks at the reasons for this bias from a number of angles, includi...

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Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929

Fogelson Robert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...

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