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Survey Measurements Techniques, Data Quality and Sources of Error

Engel Uwe

ISBN: PB: 9783593502809, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
239 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 28 halftones

The accuracy of a survey is directly affected by how the survey is presented, how the questions are worded, and what the format is for responses. In addition, survey methods continue to develop at an accelerating rate to keep step with technological...

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Genetics

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Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening

Timmermans Stefan, Buchbinder Mara

ISBN: PB: 9780226273617, ISBN: HB: 9780226924977, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...

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Sociology of Modern China

Rocca Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781849043533, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise "Sociology of Modern China" wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society in little more than a 130 pages, all the while avoiding cliches and s...

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Business & Economics

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Song of the Shirt The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045223, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordere...

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Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

Geiger Andrea A. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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Literary Criticism

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Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground

Chakravarty Prasanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia. The anthology brings toget...

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Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery

DeGloma Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Stalin's American Spy Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials

Sharp Tony

ISBN: HB: 9781849043441, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
424 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Sexual Discretion Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing

McCune Jeffrey Q. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096537, ISBN: HB: 9780226096360, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as "down-low" or "DL" men, many continue to have relatio...

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