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Sign Language

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Hoffmann-Dilloway Erika

ISBN: HB: 9781563686641, Gallaudet University Press, June 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 3 photos

While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framewor...

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Methods That Matter Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

Hay M. Cameron

ISBN: PB: 9780226328669, ISBN: HB: 9780226328522, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 15 figures, 10 tables

To do research that really makes a difference – the authors of this book argue – social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, "Methods that...

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Education

Women Studies

Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success

Hamilton

ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables

Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...

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History of Art

Gender Studies

25 Women Essays on Their Art

Hickey Dave

ISBN: HB: 9780226333151, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
192 pp., 22x18.4 cm, 26 colour plates, 1 halftone

Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging". Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer". Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero". There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey – and...

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Europe

Women Studies

Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance

Hurlburt Holly S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...

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Culture Studies

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Insane Chicago Way The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia

Hagedorn John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226232935, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 12 tables

"The Insane Chicago Way" is the untold story of a daring plan by Chicago gangs in the 1990s to create a Spanish Mafia – and why it failed. John M. Hagedorn traces how Chicago Latino gang leaders, following in Al Capone's footsteps, built a sophistica...

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Christianity

Women Studies

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Hamori Esther J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...

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Remoteness and Modernity Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan

Hussain Shafqat

ISBN: HB: 9780300205558, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders o...

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Culture Studies

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Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Harks Tobias, Vehlken Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...

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America

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Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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