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Culture Studies
New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side
Halle David, Tiso Elisabeth
ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table
The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...
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Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society
Krasovic Mark
ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...
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Narcotic Culture A History of Drugs in China
Dikotter Frank, Zhou Xun, Laamann Lars
ISBN: PB: 9781849044721, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium – a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence....
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Women Studies
Gender Studies
No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy
Shah Chaynika, Merchant Raj, Mahajan Shalini, Nevatia Smriti
ISBN: PB: 9789384757687, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2015
287 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? "No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy" answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the fe...
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No Way Out Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing
Duck Waverly
ISBN: PB: 9780226298061, ISBN: HB: 9780226297903, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan fa...
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Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
Harks Tobias, Vehlken Sebastian
ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...
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Gender Studies
Not Tonight Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health
Kempner Joanna
ISBN: PB: 9780226179155, ISBN: HB: 9780226179018, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table
Pain. Vomiting. Hours and days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans and costs the US economy at least $32 billion per year. Nevertheless, it is frequent...
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Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India
Datta Bishakha
ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm
From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...
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Nature's Noblemen Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-century American West
Rico Monica
ISBN: HB: 9780300136067, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. R...
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Not Just Roommates Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution
Pleck Elizabeth H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226671048, ISBN: HB: 9780226671031, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 15 halftones
The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In "Not Just Roommates", Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed...
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