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Africa

Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa

Ludwig Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones

"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...

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Authority Construction and Corrosion

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

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Thinking Through Statistics

Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226567631, ISBN: HB: 9780226567464, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 56 line drawings, 25 tables

Simply put, "Thinking Through Statistics" is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work. But don't let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour...

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Computer Science & Internet

Mindful Tech How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

Levy David M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227017, ISBN: HB: 9780300208313, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.6x21 cm

From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overloa...

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Thinking Through Methods A Social Science Primer

Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226431727, ISBN: HB: 9780226431697, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 2 tables

Sociological research is hard enough already – you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desp...

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Database of Dreams The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity

Lemov Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300209525, Yale University Press, November 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights p...

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Anthropology

Ethical Condition Essays on Action, Person, and Value

Lambek Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226292243, ISBN: HB: 9780226292106, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditi...

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Anthropology of the Name

Lazarus Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780857422309, Seagull Books, August 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Translated by Gila Walker for the first time into English, "Anthropology of the Name" is French thinker Sylvain Lazarus's response to the intellectual caesura of May 1968. Taking up thought, politics, and the name, Lazarus presents an original doctri...

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Remittance Landscape Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA

Lopez Sarah Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226202815, ISBN: HB: 9780226105130, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico – one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With "The Remittance Landscape", Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with th...

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Renegade Dreams Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Laurence Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226032719, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables

Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city" and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our foc...

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