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Inside the Enemy's Computer Identifying Cyber-Attackers

Guitton Clement

ISBN: HB: 9781849045544, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Attribution – tracing those responsible for a cyber attack – is of primary importance when classifying it as a criminal act, an act of war, or an act of terrorism. Three assumptions dominate current thinking: attribution is a t...

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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Therapeutic Revolutions Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Greene Jeremy A., Condrau Flurin, Siegel Watkins Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226390871, ISBN: HB: 9780226390734, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 5 tables

When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight dis...

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Landscapes of Accumulation Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India

Guiu Searle Llerena

ISBN: PB: 9780226385068, ISBN: HB: 9780226384900, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 7 tables

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence

Geetha V.

ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...

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Gender Studies

Literary Criticism

Foucault and the "Kamasutra" The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India

Gautam Sanjay K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348445, ISBN: HB: 9780226348308, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The "Kamasutra" is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In "Foucault and the Kamasutra"...

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Sign Language

General

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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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Patty's Got a Gun Patricia Hearst in 1970s America

Graebner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226324326, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 17 halftones

It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army – who had kidnapped her a mere nine weeks earlier. Bu...

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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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