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Criminology

Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law

Drobac Jennifer Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226301013, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

When we consider the concept of sexual abuse and harassment, our minds tend to jump either towards adults caught in unhealthy relationships or criminals who take advantage of children. But the millions of maturing teenagers who also deal with sexual...

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Windows into the Soul Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology

Marx Gary T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285917, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 8 tables

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers – and the merely curious – to see. In "Windows into the Soul", Gary T. Marx, a central figure in t...

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Processual Sociology

Abbott Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226336626, ISBN: HB: 9780226336596, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a "processual" ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing – making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. H...

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Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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State Built on Sand How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

Mansfield David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045681, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Variations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan had long been associated with how the state was perceived at the time of the 2001 invasion. The Taliban, for instance, had imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. But the interna...

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Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

Elshakry Marwa

ISBN: PB: 9780226378732, ISBN: HB: 9780226001302, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In "Reading Darwin in Arabic", Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and readi...

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Photography

Women Studies

Through Women's Eyes From Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia. Passion and Courage

Miglietti Francesca Alfano

ISBN: HB: 9788831722810, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2016
288 pp., 25.7x20.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 151 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 20th century to today features the most important works of 25 artists. Women have played an important role in the development of photogr...

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Women Studies

Sport

Body Toning for Women Bodyweight Training / Nutrition / Motivation: 21 Days is All it Takes

Wyndham-Read Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9781782550716, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2016
208 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 3 colour illus., 246 black&white illus., 3 tables

Every woman wants to work on some part of her body. Whether you are looking to shape your arms, bust, back, abs, bottom, or legs, Lucy Wyndham-Read's book on body toning will help you get the perfect gym body. Within just 21 days, you will see notice...

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Africa

General

Famine in Somalia Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12

Maxwell Daniel, Majid Nisar

ISBN: PB: 9781849045759, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-2012, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drou...

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