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Mathematical Models of Social Evolution A Guide for the Perplexed

McElreath Richard, Boyd Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226558271, ISBN: HB: 9780226558264, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 55 line drawings, 99 tables, 41 boxes

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavio...

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Literary Criticism

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Mieke Bal Reader

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035857, ISBN: HB: 9780226035840, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Midrashic Women Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature

Baskin Judith R.

ISBN: PB: 9781584651789, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansio...

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Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities

Lucas Ceil

ISBN: PB: 9781563681080, Gallaudet University Press, February 2001
246 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures

This collection offers a wide variety of fascinating studies that consider multicultural aspects among deaf people worldwide. Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner investigate variation in the use of gay, lesbian, and bisexual signs in the Deaf community; J...

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Gender Studies

Manhood in the Making Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

Gilmore David D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300050769, Yale University Press, July 1991
272 pp., 20.8x13.6 cm

In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness – on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality – is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousnes...

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