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MIRIAM CAHN I AS HUMAN

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788364177552, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2019
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 40 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and perform...

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Gender Studies

Book of Minor Perverts Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality

Kahan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226607955, ISBN: HB: 9780226607818, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities – what Michel Foucault deemed "minor perverts" – has never before been told. In "The Book of Minor Perverts", Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart...

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Criminology

On the Outside Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration

Harding David J., Morenoff Jeffrey D., Wyse Jessica J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226607641, ISBN: HB: 9780226607504, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 8 tables

America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin society each year".On the Outside" examines the lives of twe...

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Women Studies

From Victims to Suspects Muslim Women Since 9/11

Hussein Shakira

ISBN: HB: 9780300230420, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Once regarded as passive victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded as arbiters of "terror" and a potential threat to be kept under control. Drawing on interviews and examples from around the world including Afghanistan, Paki...

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Women Studies

Anthropology

Behind Closed Doors At Home in Georgian England

Vickery Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780300245721, Yale University Press, January 2019
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 80 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dor...

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Women Studies

Mirrored Loss A Yemeni Woman's Life Story

vom Bruck Gabriele

ISBN: HB: 9781849049030, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Mirrored Loss" tells the story of Amat al-Latif al-Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relat...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Evidence of Being The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

Bost Darius

ISBN: PB: 9780226589824, ISBN: HB: 9780226589794, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Evidence of Being" opens on a grim scene: Washington D. C. 's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest...

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Business & Economics

General

Economics of Poverty Traps

Barrett Christopher B., Carter Michael, Chavas Jean-Paul, Carter Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...

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General

Problem of Jobs Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia

McKee Guian A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598420, ISBN: HB: 9780226560120, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, "The Problem of Jobs" reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rat...

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General

Shias of Pakistan An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority

Rieck Andreas T.

ISBN: PB: 9781787381513, ISBN: HB: 9781849043557, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
564 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Shias of Pakistan" are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but comprise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population. In recent decades Sunni extremists have increasingly targeted them with hate p...

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