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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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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals

Cawthon Stephanie W., Garberoglio Carrie Lou

ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.

In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...

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Sociologist's Eye Reflections on Social Life

Erikson Kai T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300106671, Yale University Press, October 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that...

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Social Theory Now

Benzecry Claudio E., Krause Monika, Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226475288, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal "Social Theory Today". Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda cente...

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Shooting Up A History of Drugs in Warfare

Kamienski Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9781849048835, ISBN: HB: 9781849045513, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Shooting Up" is a comprehensive and original history of the relationship between fighting men and intoxicants, from Antiquity till the present day. Lukasz Kamienski explores why and how drugs have been issued to soldiers to in...

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Sociology of Howard S. Becker Theory with a Wide Horizon

Pessin Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226362854, ISBN: HB: 9780226362717, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents – in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to pathbreaking studies of devian...

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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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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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Media Studies

Social Media – New Masses

Baxmann Inge, Beyes Timon, Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...

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Scenescapes How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Silver Daniel Aaron, Clark Terry Nichols

ISBN: PB: 9780226356990, ISBN: HB: 9780226356853, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 39 line drawings, 30 tables

Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his bar-stool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the...

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