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Hinge Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226745664, ISBN: HB: 9780226745527, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social orga...

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America

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Class Matters The Strange Career of an American Delusion

Fraser Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780300244359, ISBN: HB: 9780300221503, Yale University Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm

From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage", class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating...

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Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639864, ISBN: HB: 9780226264981, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account i...

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Political Science

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Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation

Fisher Williamson Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...

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Sign Language

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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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Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Flores Lori A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...

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Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives

Ferdowsian Hope

ISBN: HB: 9780226475936, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few things get our compassion flowing like the sight of suffering. But our response is often shaped by our ability to empathize with others. Some people respond to the suffering of only humans or to one person's plight more than another's. Others rea...

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Music

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Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin

Fairclough Pauline

ISBN: HB: 9780300217193, Yale University Press, April 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censor...

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It's a Small World International Deaf Spaces and Encounters

Friedner Michele, Kusters Annelies

ISBN: HB: 9781563686528, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 11 figures

"It's a Small World" explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME ("I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same") and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national...

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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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