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Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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General

Contagion How Commerce Has Spread Disease

Harrison Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300123579, Yale University Press, August 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Disease and commerce are among the most powerful forces that have shaped the modern world. They are also closely intertwined: over many centuries trade has been the single most important factor in the spread of diseases throughout the world. In this...

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Political Science

General

Building Resilience Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012889, ISBN: HB: 9780226012872, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 tables, 20 line illus.

Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid provided by...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE

Reddy William M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706276, ISBN: HB: 9780226706269, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a...

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Moral Neoliberal Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

Muehlebach Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226545400, ISBN: HB: 9780226545394, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neol...

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Women Studies

Islam

Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies

Raghavan Chitra, Levine James P.

ISBN: PB: 9781611682809, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessaril...

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Culture Studies

Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...

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Culture Studies

Beauty and the Beast

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226789866, ISBN: HB: 9780226789859, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 36 halftones

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their b...

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Europe

Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New

Kete Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300174823, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities – Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier – Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionali...

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Criminology

Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law

Phillips Susan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667669, ISBN: HB: 9780226667652, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line illus.

In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted fo...

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