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Hinge Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226745664, ISBN: HB: 9780226745527, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social orga...

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Fiction

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Hidden Path

Fortun Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780997228786, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following...

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Criminology

Serial Killers of the '70s Stories Behind a Notorious Decade of Death

Fritsch Jane

ISBN: PB: 9781454939382, GMC Group, Sterling, July 2020
320 pp., 20.6x13.5 cm, illus.

The Zodiac Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler and Dating Game Killer – in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most not...

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Jewish Studies

Women Studies

Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova

Freeze Chaeran Y.

ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings

Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...

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Biography & Memoires

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Harvey Milk His Lives and Death

Faderman Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9780300248555, ISBN: HB: 9780300222616, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...

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America

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Class Matters The Strange Career of an American Delusion

Fraser Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780300244359, ISBN: HB: 9780300221503, Yale University Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm

From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage", class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating...

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Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639864, ISBN: HB: 9780226264981, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account i...

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Photography

Women Studies

Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman

Friedewald Boris

ISBN: PB: 9783791384665, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.

Now available in an updated paperback edition and including new photographs, this thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-d...

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Political Science

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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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Sign Language

General

Silent Life and Silent Language The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf

Farlow Kate M.

ISBN: PB: 9781944838294, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
200 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Silent Life and Silent Language" presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and enter...

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