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High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

Hanson Gordon H., Kerr William R., Turner Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226525525, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 101 line drawings, 31 tables

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U. S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect e...

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Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands

Ourednicek Martin, Jichova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...

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Gender Studies

How Places Make Us Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities

Brown-Saracino Japonica

ISBN: PB: 9780226361253, ISBN: HB: 9780226361116, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 11 tables

We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this no...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Homintern How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

Woods Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300228748, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...

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Criminology

Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...

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Sign Language

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Hidden Treasure of Black ASL Its History and Structure

McCaskill Carolyn, Lucas Ceil, Bayley Robert, Hill Joseph Christopher

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781563684890, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures

People who first encounter sign language often ask if all deaf people sign the same language and are surprised to learn that there are different sign languages in different nations worldwide, as well as variations of these languages. One variation, B...

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Political Science

Criminology

Hidden Power The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime

Cockayne James

ISBN: HB: 9781849046350, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What should we make of the outsized role organised crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the conv...

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Culture Studies

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How to Be a Good Parent

Mitchell Jaqueline

ISBN: HB: 9781851244386, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 10 black&white illus.

"To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done". "The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten". "If there is room enough for somersaults, the child can be satisfied". Man...

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Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Klinenberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226276182, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Mete...

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Political Science

How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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