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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

That Monstrous Regiment The Birth of Women's Political Emancipation

Stone Harry

ISBN: PB: 9781861513137, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, June 2015
268 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man's wo...

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Business & Economics

General

Song of the Shirt The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045223, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordere...

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Criminology

Killing Compartments The Mentality of Mass Murder

Swaan Abram de Swaan

ISBN: HB: 9780300208726, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxono...

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General

Poverty and the Quest for Life Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

Singh Bhrigupati

ISBN: PB: 9780226194547, ISBN: HB: 9780226194400, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 2 tables

The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers,...

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General

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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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

Stimpson Catharine R., Herdt Gilbert

ISBN: PB: 9780226774817, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
536 pp., 23x15 cm

"Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives – in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups... Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from histori...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Stalin's American Spy Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials

Sharp Tony

ISBN: HB: 9781849043441, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
424 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured...

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Ecology

General

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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Jewish Studies

Gender Studies

You Feel So Mortal Essays on the Body

Shinner Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226105277, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Feet, bras, autopsies, hair – Peggy Shinner takes an honest, unflinching look at all of them in "You Feel So Mortal", a collection of searing and witty essays about the body: her own body, female and Jewish; those of her parents, the bodies she came...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Only Woman in the Room A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts

Sirota Gordon Beate

ISBN: PB: 9780226132518, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones

In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution".The Only Woman in the Room" chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitu...

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