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Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Third Edition)

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643939, ISBN: HB: 9780226683638, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones

For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholar...

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When Home Won't Let You Stay Migration through Contemporary Art

Respini Eva, Erickson Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300247480, Yale University Press, November 2019
240 pp., 29.2x22.2 cm, 134 colour illus.

In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to mig...

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Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation

Fisher Williamson Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...

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Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City

Krinsky John, Simonet Maud

ISBN: PB: 9780226435589, ISBN: HB: 9780226435442, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables

America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars – both public and private – fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash m...

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Law

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Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

Edelman Lauren B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...

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What is a Refugee?

Maley William

ISBN: PB: 9781849046794, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With the recent arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum-seekers, a sense of panic began to spread across the continent and beyond. William Maley's illuminating introduction offers a guide to the complex idea of...

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When We Imagine Grace Black Men and Subject Making

Drake Simone C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226363974, ISBN: HB: 9780226363837, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she qui...

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Windows into the Soul Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology

Marx Gary T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285917, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 8 tables

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers – and the merely curious – to see. In "Windows into the Soul", Gary T. Marx, a central figure in t...

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America

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Who Speaks for the Negro?

Warren Robert Penn, Blight David W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...

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Political Science

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Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America

Duncan Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...

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