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My Mother Made Me Deaf Discourse and Identity in a Deaf Community

Eldredge Bryan K.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686870, Gallaudet University Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table

The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. Howeve...

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Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences

Sayer Derek

ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...

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Criminology

Murder at the Fort A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up!

Marmion Bob

ISBN: PB: 9781925520118, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
324 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's...

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Law

Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don't Sue

Engel David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226305042, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 figures, 1 table

Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don't! For every "Whiplash Charlie" who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald's customer to pursue a claim over a too-hot cup of...

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Sport

Midnight Basketball Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy

Hartmann Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9780226374987, ISBN: HB: 9780226374840, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders – home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls – is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about...

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Methods That Matter Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

Hay M. Cameron

ISBN: PB: 9780226328669, ISBN: HB: 9780226328522, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 15 figures, 10 tables

To do research that really makes a difference – the authors of this book argue – social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, "Methods that...

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Criminology

Middle East Drugs Bazaar Production, Prevention and Consumption

Robins Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781849042819, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Middle East is intimately involved in the issue of illegal drugs which affects all the countries of the region: as a cultivator (Morocco, Lebanon); transit hub (Iran, Turkey); and consumer (Egypt). Yet, until now, there has...

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Music

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Music and Capitalism A History of the Present

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311975, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical – they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasiv...

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Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...

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Masters of Uncertainty Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth

Daipha Phaedra

ISBN: PB: 9780226298689, ISBN: HB: 9780226298542, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently do a better job calibrating their performance than stockbrokers, physicians, or other decision-making ex...

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