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Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent

Beauregard Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535388, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress wi...

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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour

Tinti Peter, Reitano Tuesday

ISBN: PB: 9781849049535, ISBN: HB: 9781849046800, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
352 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and encouraged by ruthless professional criminal networks that earn billions of...

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Political Science

Criminology

Expeditionary Police Advising and Militarization Building Security in a Fractured World

Stoker Donald

ISBN: HB: 9781911512868, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 photos, 10 charts

This original edited volume draws upon the latest work of a global cast of scholars and practitioners in several fields to examine the history, evolution and lessons of previous expeditionary police advising missions. Since the end of the Cold War, t...

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Military

Criminology

Spies, Lies, and Citizenship The Hunt for Nazi Criminals

Barbier Mary K.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347271, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 photographs, 1 drawing

In the 1970s, news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to depo...

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Women Studies

Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison

Habib Anjum Zamarud

ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...

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Women Studies

Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

Kolas Ashild

ISBN: HB: 9789385932304, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by schola...

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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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Women Studies

Motherhood and Choice Feminist Debates on Non-Normative Motherhood

Nandy Amrita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932045, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Pathways of Desire The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men

Carrillo Hector

ISBN: PB: 9780226517735, ISBN: HB: 9780226508177, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings

With "Pathways of Desire", Hector Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attent...

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America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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