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Sign Language

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In Our Own Hands Essays in Deaf History, 1780-1970

Greenwald Brian H., Murray Joseph J.

ISBN: PB: 9781563686603, Gallaudet University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos, 4 tables

This collection of new research examines the development of deaf people's autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. Covering the period of 1780-1970, the essays in this collec...

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Europe

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Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

Geiger Andrea A. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...

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Culture Studies

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App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

Gardner Howard, Davis Katie

ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...

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On the Run Fugitive Life in an American City

Goffman Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780226136714, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillanc...

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Education

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Law

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Three and a Half Minute Transaction Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design

Gulati Mitu, Scott Robert E.

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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Culture Studies

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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...

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Europe

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Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Glaeser Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...

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Islam

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Apart Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West

Gest Justin

ISBN: PB: 9781849040754, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Muslim minorities comprise an ever-increasing proportion of Europe's population, but are official strategies to thwart home-grown terrorism forcing Muslims further to the fringe of our societies? For every terror suspect we see...

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