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Anthropology

General

What About Mozart? What About Murder? Reasoning From Cases

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226166490, ISBN: HB: 9780226166353, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end...

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Education

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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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Culture Studies

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We are the Roma! One Thousand Years of Discrimination

Nicolae Valeriu

ISBN: PB: 9780857420381, Seagull Books, December 2013
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm

The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with significant populations in the Balkan Peninsula as well as Spain, France, Russia, and the Ukraine. Persecution of the Roma d...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Woman Reader

Jack Belinda Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300197204, ISBN: HB: 9780300120455, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Women in the Club Gender and Policy Making in the Senate

Swers Michele L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226022826, ISBN: HB: 9780226022796, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 tables, 10 line illus.

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a "war on women",‌ while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually...

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Women Studies

Women Changing India

Butalia Urvashi, Roy Anita

ISBN: HB: 9788189884970, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

India is changing. And at the heart of this change are its women. The change is widespread and varied, individual and collective, reflecting the full spectrum of women's lives, whether in politics or in economics, in business, or within their daily d...

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Gender Studies

America

West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930

Mitchell Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226532691, ISBN: HB: 9780226532684, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In "West of Sex", Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and crim...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Women of Byzantium

Connor Carolyn L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300186468, Yale University Press, January 2012
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the w...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

Iversen Torben, Rosenbluth Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780300171341, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...

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Criminology

Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Preib Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226679822, ISBN: HB: 9780226679808, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
176 pp., 21.3x14 cm

Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department – a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the Ci...

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