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Silent Life and Silent Language The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf

Farlow Kate M.

ISBN: PB: 9781944838294, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
200 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Silent Life and Silent Language" presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and enter...

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Military

Criminology

Spies, Lies, and Citizenship The Hunt for Nazi Criminals

Barbier Mary K.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347271, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 photographs, 1 drawing

In the 1970s, news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to depo...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979

Shepard Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226493275, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked. ? "Sex, France, and Arab Men" is a history of how an...

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Political Science

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Syria The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

Chatty Dawn

ISBN: HB: 9781849048767, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread...

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Asia

Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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Sign Language

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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals

Cawthon Stephanie W., Garberoglio Carrie Lou

ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.

In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...

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Sociologist's Eye Reflections on Social Life

Erikson Kai T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300106671, Yale University Press, October 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that...

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Social Theory Now

Benzecry Claudio E., Krause Monika, Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226475288, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal "Social Theory Today". Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda cente...

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Christianity

Women Studies

Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings

Brekus Catherine A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...

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Shooting Up A History of Drugs in Warfare

Kamienski Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9781849048835, ISBN: HB: 9781849045513, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Shooting Up" is a comprehensive and original history of the relationship between fighting men and intoxicants, from Antiquity till the present day. Lukasz Kamienski explores why and how drugs have been issued to soldiers to in...

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