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Media Studies

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Starring Mandela and Cosby Media and the End(s) of Apartheid

Krabill Ron

ISBN: PB: 9780226451893, ISBN: HB: 9780226451886, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa – among both Black and White South Africans – was "The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and th...

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Anthropology

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Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany

Evans Andrew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...

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Islam

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Apart Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West

Gest Justin

ISBN: PB: 9781849040754, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Muslim minorities comprise an ever-increasing proportion of Europe's population, but are official strategies to thwart home-grown terrorism forcing Muslims further to the fringe of our societies? For every terror suspect we see...

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General

Under Siege Inter-ethnic Relations in Abkhazia

Trier Tom, Lohm Hedvig, Szakonyi David

ISBN: HB: 9781849040204, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Under Siegeis" the first book in any language to document and analyze the ethno-political dynamics of Abkhazia – a region located in the north eastern corner of the Black Sea – which broke away from the post-Soviet Republic of...

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America

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Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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Sign Language

General

Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Burch Susan, Kafer Alison

ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...

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Gender Studies

Capital Affairs London and the Making of the Permissive Society

Mort Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780300118797, Yale University Press, June 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.

Did Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This exciting new account of 1950s London challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s, arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that ma...

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General

Belonging in an Adopted World Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

Yngvesson Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226964478, ISBN: HB: 9780226964461, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 9 tables, 16 halftones

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging in an Adopted World", Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implica...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Mother's Work How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life

Gilbert Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300164619, Yale University Press, May 2010
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Collins Jane L., Mayer Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226114064, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 line drawings, 3 tables, 16 halftones

"Both Hands Tied" studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisc...

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