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Women Studies

Mannequin Working Women in India's Glamour Industry

Bhattacharya Manjima

ISBN: HB: 9789385932229, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The fashion industry in India is huge, employing more than sixty million people and, at $70 billion, accounting for a sizable chunk of the nation's economic activity. Despite that, it remains a startlingly unprofessional industry – particularly when...

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Gender Studies

Mourning After Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men

Ibson John

ISBN: PB: 9780226576688, ISBN: HB: 9780226576541, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 halftones

On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these inti...

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Gender Studies

Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders

Mai Nicola

ISBN: PB: 9780226585000, ISBN: HB: 9780226584959, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...

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Contemporary Art

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: HB: 9780226439471, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 73 halftones

Aby Warburg's "Mnemosyne Atlas" (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminat...

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Criminology

Africa

Apartheid Guns and Money A Tale of Profit

van Vuuren Hennie

ISBN: HB: 9781787380974, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and a...

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Sweden's Dark Soul The Unravelling of a Utopia

Norman Kajsa

ISBN: HB: 9781787380097, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a...

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Women Studies

Sport

Perfect Wedding Workout Look Your Best on the Big Day in Just 10 Weeks

Limmer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781782551461, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2018
216 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour and black&white illus.

Making that last-minute effort to have a flat belly and firm arms for a strapless wedding dress? Every woman dreams of looking perfect on one of the most important days of her life. After all, she doesn't want to be upset about little problem areas w...

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Business & Economics

General

Economics for Humans Second Edition

Nelson Julie A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226463803, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassi...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

I've Got to Make My Livin' Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Blair Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597584, ISBN: HB: 9780226055985, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 maps, 9 tables, 15 halftones

For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In "I've Got to Make My Livin'", Cynthia Blair...

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Gender Studies

Brokered Subjects Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom

Bernstein Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226573779, ISBN: HB: 9780226573632, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

"Brokered Subjects" digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein s...

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