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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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Women Studies

Princess of the Hither Isles A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South

Logan Alexander Adele

ISBN: HB: 9780300242607, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabam...

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Contemporary Art

General

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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Contemporary Art

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront

Anderson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...

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Criminology

Linguistics

Discourse of Police Interviews

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Culture Studies

Criminology

Going All City Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture

Bloch Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9780226493589, ISBN: HB: 9780226493442, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

"We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard...

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Gender Studies

Gender and Governance Studies From South Asia

Kazi Seema

ISBN: HB: 9789385932403, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2019
400 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Gender and Governance" examines how different governance structures affect gender in five specific locations in South Asia: Swat in Pakistan, the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, the Northern Province in Sri Lanka, and Kashmir and Manipur in In...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Women vs Capitalism Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy

Pryce Vicky

ISBN: HB: 9781787381742, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky Pryce urgently calls for feminists to focus...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Shirin Neshat I Will Greet the Sun Again

Schad Ed

ISBN: HB: 9783791358758, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

In the 1990s, Shirin Neshat's startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen vid...

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