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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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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Shilo Margalit

ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...

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Gender Studies

Before and After Gender Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life

Strathern Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780986132537, University of Chicago Press, HAU, April 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's "Before and After Gender" was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology...

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Education

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Confucius Institutes Academic Malware

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780984201082, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2015
64 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

In recent years, "Confucius Institutes" have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and...

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Peak Oil Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture

Schneider-Mayerson Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226285436, ISBN: HB: 9780226285269, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

In recent years, the concept of "peak oil" – the moment when global oil production peaks and a train of economic, social, and political catastrophes accompany its subsequent decline – has captured the imagination of a surprisingly large number of Ame...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy

Shah Chaynika, Merchant Raj, Mahajan Shalini, Nevatia Smriti

ISBN: PB: 9789384757687, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2015
287 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? "No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy" answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the fe...

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Political Science

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Political Peoplehood The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities

Smith Rogers M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285092, ISBN: HB: 9780226284934, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of "political peoples", a category that is much broader and mo...

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Pauperland Poverty and the Poor in Britain

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045841, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland'. More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by May...

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Anthropology

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Modes of Uncertainty Anthropological Cases

Samimian-Darash Limor, Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226257105, ISBN: HB: 9780226257075, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 5 halftones

"Modes of Uncertainty" offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose un...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sarojini N., Marwah Vrinda

ISBN: HB: 9789383074525, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women's bodies. Viewed...

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