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Black Oxford The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars

Roberts Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781908493835, Signal Books, October 2013
104 pp., 21.4x14.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alu...

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How to be a Good Mother-in-Law

ISBN: HB: 9781851240821, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Everyone knows a joke about mothers-in-law, but what are the golden rules you need to become a popular one? The authors of this pioneering guide, first published in the 1930s, aimed to dramatically improve relationships for all the family with sound...

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How to be a Good Motorist

ISBN: HB: 9781851240807, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 9 black&white illus.

How should a motorist converse with the police? Should you switch off your headlights when another car approaches? What parts of the engine can you fix with a sheet of emery paper, insulating tape and copper wire? The 1920s heralded the age of motori...

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Gender Studies

Blind to Sameness Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies

Friedman Asia

ISBN: PB: 9780226023632, ISBN: HB: 9780226023465, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to...

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Women Studies

Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India

Datta Bishakha

ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm

From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...

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Woman Reader

Jack Belinda Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300197204, ISBN: HB: 9780300120455, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to...

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Politics of Belonging Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration

Masuoka Natalie, Junn Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226057163, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 15 tables

The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Questions about who should be admitted and what benefits should be afforded to new members of the polity are among the most divisive and controversial contemporary political i...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Blessing Same-Sex Unions The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102535, ISBN: HB: 9780226410333, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by "Modern Brid...

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Global Spread of Fertility Decline Population, Fear, and Uncertainty

Winter Jay, Teitelbaum Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139068, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. Th...

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Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England

Andrew Donna T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...

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