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Truly Disadvantaged The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Second Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901268, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 13 line illus.

Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life i...

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Criminology

Tilted Playing Field Is Criminal Justice Unfair?

Uviller H. Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300183023, Yale University Press, November 2011
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Although evenly matched adversaries make for a more exciting athletic contest, and a level playing field is essential to a fair game, is the same true in a criminal trial? In this compelling new book, H. Richard Uviller argues that a criminal trial i...

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Criminology

Truth Machine The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

Lynch Michael, Cole Simon A., McNally Ruth, Jordan Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226498072, ISBN: HB: 9780226498065, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
416 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

DNA profiling – commonly known as DNA fingerprinting – is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable "truth machine" that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. Bu...

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Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Criminology

Talking to Terrorists Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

Bew John, Frampton Martyn, Gurruchaga Inigo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659679, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The peace agreement in Northern Ireland is now held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The 'lessons of Ulster' have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agencies to numer...

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Tormented by History Nationalism in Greece and Turkey

Sofos Spyros A., Ozkirimli Umut

ISBN: PB: 9781850658993, ISBN: HB: 9781850659051, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...

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Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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Through Deaf Eyes A Photographic History of an American Community

Baynton Douglas, Gannon Jack R., Lindquist Bergey Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781563683473, Gallaudet University Press, April 2007
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour photos

In 2001, the Smithsonian Institution presented the landmark photographic exhibition "History Through Deaf Eyes", representing nearly 200 years of United States deaf history. Drawing heavily on the extensive archives at Gallaudet University, the curat...

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