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Criminology

Jack the Ripper The Forgotten Victims

Begg Paul, Bennett John

ISBN: HB: 9780300117202, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length, but other contemporary murders and attacks bearing...

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General

Women Studies

Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe

Parvulescu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...

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AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

Smith Daniel Jordan

ISBN: PB: 9780226108834, ISBN: HB: 9780226108667, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equat...

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Making Hispanics How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

Mora G. Cristina

ISBN: PB: 9780226033839, ISBN: HB: 9780226033662, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as "Hispanics" and "Latinos" in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope...

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Education

General

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Sexual Discretion Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing

McCune Jeffrey Q. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096537, ISBN: HB: 9780226096360, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as "down-low" or "DL" men, many continue to have relatio...

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Europe

Women Studies

Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

Herbert Amanda E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...

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Field Experiments and Their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences

Teele Dawn Langan

ISBN: PB: 9780300169409, Yale University Press, February 2014
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed...

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Education

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges

Mahmud Lilith

ISBN: PB: 9780226095868, ISBN: HB: 9780226095721, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: There ar...

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