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Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States

LaChance Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...

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Earth Sciences

America

Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane

Aviles Lourdes B.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones

On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...

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America

Tanana Chiefs Native Rights and Western Law

Schneider William

ISBN: PB: 9781602233447, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 halftones

At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communicat...

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Christianity

America

American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975

Osborne Catherine R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....

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Criminology

Military

Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today

Anderson Scott A., Nussbaum Martha C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...

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Media Studies

Middle East

Digital Middle East State and Society in the Information Age

Zayani Mohamed

ISBN: PB: 9781849049054, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In recent years, the Middle East's information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalising on the opportunities offered by new information technologies,...

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Europe

Empire's New Clothes The Myth of the Commonwealth

Murphy Philip

ISBN: HB: 9781849049467, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organised and what has held it together for so long? How imp...

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Africa

Mayor of Mogadishu A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia

Harding Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781849049511, ISBN: HB: 9781849046787, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
296 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Mayor of Mogadishu" tells the story of one family's epic journey through Somalia's turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its spectacular unravelling. Mohamud "Tarzan" Nur was born a nomad, and became an orphan, th...

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Middle East

Merchant of Syria A History of Survival

Darke Diana

ISBN: HB: 9781849049405, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
364 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire – despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria a...

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Europe

Christianity

Conscience and Conversion Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France

Kselman Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300226133, Yale University Press, March 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons...

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