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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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Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent

Beauregard Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535388, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress wi...

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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour

Tinti Peter, Reitano Tuesday

ISBN: PB: 9781849049535, ISBN: HB: 9781849046800, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
352 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and encouraged by ruthless professional criminal networks that earn billions of...

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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands

Ourednicek Martin, Jichova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...

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Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s

Carty Breda

ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos

This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...

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Constellations of Inequality Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil

Mitchell Sean T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226499260, ISBN: HB: 9780226499123, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 map

In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with di...

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Syria The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

Chatty Dawn

ISBN: HB: 9781849048767, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread...

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Asia

Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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