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Culture Studies

Ghetto at the Center of the World Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

Mathews Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226510200, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 30 halftones

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani p...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Sahara A Cultural History

Gearon Eamonn

ISBN: PB: 9781904955825, Signal Books, June 2011
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and cam...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Lost Album A Visual History of 1050's Britain

Hyman Basil

ISBN: HB: 9781861543202, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, May 2011
240 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

"I had forgotten all about these photographs until recently when on my 70th birthday my wife presented me with an album she had treasured all through the years. This lost album of photographs contains the very essence of the 1950s for me" – Basil Hym...

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Culture Studies

Switching Codes Thinking through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Bartscherer Thomas, Coover Roderick

ISBN: PB: 9780226038315, ISBN: HB: 9780226038308, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
448 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 40 halftones, 4 line illus.

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Grazian David

ISBN: PB: 9780226306728, ISBN: HB: 9780226305677, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
296 pp., 21.3x14.2 cm

David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has evolved into...

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Culture Studies

Chicago A Biography

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644288, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
472 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 145 halftones

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a "City on the Make". Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders". Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle", while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it "the Second City". At...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Social Life of Coffee The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

Cowan Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300171228, ISBN: HB: 9780300106664, Yale University Press, March 2011
378 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 43 black&white illus.

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan...

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America

Culture Studies

Foul Bodies Cleanliness in Early America

Brown Kathleen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171556, Yale University Press, March 2011
464 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.

A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that...

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Jewish Studies

Culture Studies

Food for Thought Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany

Bernstein Julia

ISBN: PB: 9783593392523, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
451 pp., 21x14 cm, 35 colour illus.

In recent decades, many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. In "Food for Thought", Julia Bernstein conducts a widely interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrant...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Flaming Feet and Other Essays The Dalit Movement in India

Nagaraj D. R.

ISBN: HB: 9781906497804, Seagull Books, March 2011
282 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics – the Dalit being a self-designatio...

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