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Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection
ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...
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£26,50
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Tamil Brahmans The Making of a Middle-Class Caste
ISBN: PB: 9780226152745, ISBN: HB: 9780226152608, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 tables
A cruise along the streets of Chennai – or Silicon Valley – filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic...
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Trapped in America's Safety Net One Family's Struggle
ISBN: PB: 9780226140445, ISBN: HB: 9780226140308, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 figures, 1 table
When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived – and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends....
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Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables
The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...
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Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay
ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...
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Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...
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Tristan's Shadow Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner
ISBN: HB: 9780226082134, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...
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Three and a Half Minute Transaction Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design
ISBN: HB: 9780226924380, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 7 line illus.
Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu...
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Torre David Informal Vertical Communities
ISBN: PB: 9783037782989, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
416 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 406 illus.
Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a "ve...
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£38,00
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Touching Encounters Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting
ISBN: PB: 9780226870069, ISBN: HB: 9780226870052, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
232 pp., 23x15 cm
Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved i...
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