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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Queer Encounters with Communist Power Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989

Sokolova Vera

ISBN: PB: 9788024642666, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
250 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness – and later on, as adu...

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Criminology

Biography & Memoires

Drop of Treason Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA

Stevenson Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226356686, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Philip Agee's story is the stuff of a John le Carre novel – perilous and thrilling adventures around the globe. He joined the CIA as a young idealist, becoming an operations officer in hopes of seeing the world and safeguarding his country. He was th...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Open Secret The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton

Syrett Nicholas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226761558, ISBN: HB: 9780226638744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In 1922, Robert Allerton – described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago" – met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. From then on, they were vi...

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America

General

Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Criminology

Killer Cults Stories of Charisma, Deceit, and Death

Singular Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781454939399, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2020
320 pp., 20.8x14 cm, illus.

What's scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them... or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders – and get an inside look at their beliefs and how they controlled others. Some cults, led by leaders like Ch...

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Public Health

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis

Slotten Ross A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226718767, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago – and, by inference, the state of Illinois – than any other physician. As a family physician, he trained to care for patients from birt...

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America

Criminology

Woman on the Windowsill A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts

Sellers-Garcia Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9780300234282, Yale University Press, April 2020
296 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 32 black&white illus.

On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to...

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General

Political Science

Fragile Middle Class Americans in Debt

Sullivan Teresa A., Warren Elizabeth, Westbrook Jay Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780300251890, Yale University Press, April 2020
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and...

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Women Studies

Midlife Crisis The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliche

Schmidt Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226637143, ISBN: HB: 9780226686851, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

The phrase "midlife crisis" today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility – an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age – but before it became a gendered cliche, it gained traction as a f...

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Poetry

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Crush

Siken Richard, Gluck Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780300246308, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm

Richard Siken's "Crush", selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional,...

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