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America

General

Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities

Nightingale Carl H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...

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Law

Criminology

Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law

Drobac Jennifer Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226301013, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

When we consider the concept of sexual abuse and harassment, our minds tend to jump either towards adults caught in unhealthy relationships or criminals who take advantage of children. But the millions of maturing teenagers who also deal with sexual...

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General

State Built on Sand How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

Mansfield David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045681, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Variations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan had long been associated with how the state was perceived at the time of the 2001 invasion. The Taliban, for instance, had imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. But the interna...

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Culture Studies

Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display

Tyburczy Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226315249, ISBN: HB: 9780226315102, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

All museums are sex museums. In "Sex Museums", Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality – particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed – and asks what role museums have played in using disp...

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Shared Future Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy

Wood Richard L., Fulton Brad R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226306025, ISBN: HB: 9780226305974, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 25 line drawings

Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In "A...

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Islam

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Shi'ism in South East Asia Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions

Formichi Chiara, Feener Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781849044363, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of 'Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of 'Alid piety allows for a reframing of our vi...

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Education

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Secret Lives of Teachers

ISBN: HB: 9780226313627, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Welcome to "East Hudson", an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have litt...

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Genetics

Gender Studies

Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

Richardson Sarah S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325613, ISBN: HB: 9780226084688, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 11 line drawings

Human genomes are 99. 9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking...

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Military

General

Social Science Goes to War The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan

McFate Montgomery, Laurence Janice H.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044219, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed...

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Souls of Black Folk

Du Bois W. E. B., Holloway Jonathan Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300195828, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black histor...

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