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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Evidence of Being The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

Bost Darius

ISBN: PB: 9780226589824, ISBN: HB: 9780226589794, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Evidence of Being" opens on a grim scene: Washington D. C. 's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest...

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Business & Economics

General

Economics of Poverty Traps

Barrett Christopher B., Carter Michael, Chavas Jean-Paul, Carter Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...

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General

Problem of Jobs Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia

McKee Guian A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598420, ISBN: HB: 9780226560120, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, "The Problem of Jobs" reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rat...

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General

Shias of Pakistan An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority

Rieck Andreas T.

ISBN: PB: 9781787381513, ISBN: HB: 9781849043557, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
564 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Shias of Pakistan" are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but comprise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population. In recent decades Sunni extremists have increasingly targeted them with hate p...

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Criminology

23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary

Reiter Keramet

ISBN: PB: 9780300240191, ISBN: HB: 9780300211467, Yale University Press, November 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

How America's prisons turned a "brutal and inhumane" practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in feat...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Receptive Bodies

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226579764, ISBN: HB: 9780226579627, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 2 halftones

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book around a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin idea...

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Women Studies

Europe

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

Leong Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226583662, ISBN: HB: 9780226583495, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified...

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Music

Women Studies

Song Walking Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland

Impey Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780226538013, ISBN: HB: 9780226537962, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

"Song Walking" explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey inv...

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Women Studies

Voices and Values The Politics of Feminist Evaluation

Sudarshan Ratna, Nandi Rajib

ISBN: HB: 9789385932397, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities...

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Judaism

Gender Studies

Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

Ladin Joy

ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...

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