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Political Science

Social Currents in North Africa Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring

Abi-Mershed Osama

ISBN: PB: 9781849048279, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Social Currents in North Africa" is a multi-disciplinary analysis of the social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. The contributors analyse the genealogies of contemporary North African behavioral and ideological norms,...

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Computer Science & Internet

Mindful Tech How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

Levy David M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227017, ISBN: HB: 9780300208313, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.6x21 cm

From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overloa...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies

Daar Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300137156, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement. Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of "inferior" genetic strains, ultimately came to be r...

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Babies of Technology Assisted Reproduction and the Rights of the Child

Mason Mary Ann, Ekman Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780300215878, Yale University Press, April 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Millions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents. But alarmingly, scarce attention has been paid to the lax regulations that have made the U.S. a ma...

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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Hyra Derek S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226449531, ISBN: HB: 9780226449364, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 6 line drawings, 17 tables

For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck...

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Varieties of Social Imagination

Celarent Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226433967, ISBN: HB: 9780226433820, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In July 2009, the "American Journal of Sociology" (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provi...

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"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York

Reick Philipp

ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2017
237 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...

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Sign Language

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My Mother Made Me Deaf Discourse and Identity in a Deaf Community

Eldredge Bryan K.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686870, Gallaudet University Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table

The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. Howeve...

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Sincerity After Communism A Cultural History

Rutten Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300213980, Yale University Press, March 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

A compelling study of "new sincerity" as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a "new sincerity" in literature, media, art, design, fa...

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Affective Circuits African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration

Cole Jennifer, Groes Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226405155, ISBN: HB: 9780226405018, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a funda...

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