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Corning Amy, Schuman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226282664, ISBN: HB: 9780226282527, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 34 line drawings, 15 tables

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuma...

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Sign Language

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Citizenship, Politics, Difference Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed Language Communities

Cooper Audrey C., Rashid Khadijat K.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686344, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 15 figures

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most linguistically, culturally, and geographically diverse regions of the world, home to more than 2,000 languages. As in the rest of the world, Deaf people live throughout the widely varying sub-Saharan communities,...

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Contemporary Art

Women Studies

Babe

Collins Petra

ISBN: HB: 9783791381039, Prestel Publishing, May 2015
192 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 166 colour illus.

Curated by one of today's most sought-after photographers, this collection of work by young female artists captures the voices and visions that are shaping a generation of women. 21-year-old Canadian photographer Petra Collins is leading the way in...

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Political Science

How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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Literary Criticism

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Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground

Chakravarty Prasanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia. The anthology brings toget...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Indian Women in the House of Fiction

Chanda Geetanjali Singh

ISBN: PB: 9789383074730, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
348 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

In her detailed readings of a wide range of Indian writers – including Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Nair, Jhumpa Lahiri and many others – Geetanjali Singh Chanda focuses on domestic spaces in women's fiction. The house is not merely a backdro...

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Trapped in America's Safety Net One Family's Struggle

Campbell Andrea Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226140445, ISBN: HB: 9780226140308, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 figures, 1 table

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived – and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends....

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Photography

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Anthony Friedkin The Gay Essay

Cox Julian, Blake Nayland, Myles Eileen

ISBN: PB: 9780300206371, Yale University Press, June 2014
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 black&white illus.

For more than forty years, American photographer Anthony Friedkin (b. 1949), creating full-frame black-and-white images, has documented people, cities and landscapes primarily in his home state of California. During the culturally tumultuous years of...

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Political Science

Women Studies

End of Equality

Campbell Beatrix

ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...

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Africa

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Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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