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Health & Wellbeing

Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being

Stavrova Olga

ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm

Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...

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Genetics

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Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Panofsky Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...

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Anthropology

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Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia

Rottger-Rossler Birgitt, Stodulka Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9783593500058, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

"Feelings at the Margins" offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional impact on affected individuals and groups. By combining anthropological, political, and historical per...

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Performing Afro-Cuba Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History

Wirtz Kristina

ISBN: PB: 9780226119052, ISBN: HB: 9780226118864, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones

Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santeria saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In "Performing Afro-Cuba",...

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Sign Language

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Deaf Interpreters at Work International Insights

Adam Robert, Stone Christopher, Collins Steven D., Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563686092, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Now, for the first time, a collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars depicts the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights presents the history of Deaf translators a...

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Ecology

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Arcadian America The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Sachs Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780300205886, Yale University Press, April 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus.

<p>Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidl...

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Law

Criminology

Pulled Over How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship

Epp Charles R., Maynard-Moody Steven, Haider-Markel Donald P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226113999, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 13 tables

In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the m...

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Crucibles of Black Empowerment Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington

Helgeson Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226130699, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer...

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On the Run Fugitive Life in an American City

Goffman Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780226136714, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillanc...

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American Lynching

Rushdy Ashraf H. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205879, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined in order to understand this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the U...

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