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Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation

Mohabir Nalini, Cummings Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...

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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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Business & Economics

General

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Reforms and Retirement Incentives

Borsch-Supan Axel, Coile Courtney C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226674100, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 558 line drawings, 33 tables

This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of pension reform on employment at older ages. In the two decades since th...

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Islam

Criminology

Idols of ISIS From Assyria to the Internet

Tugendhaft Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226737560, ISBN: HB: 9780226623535, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political impor...

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General

Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City

Garcia-Chueca Eva, Vidal Lorenzo

ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...

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Biography & Memoires

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality

Hope Cleves Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...

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Photography

Gender Studies

Self Evident Truths 10,000 Portraits of Queer America

Tillett Wright Io

ISBN: HB: 9783791386911, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
544 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10000 black&white illus.

The Declaration of Independence states that it is self-evident that we are all created equal. Millions of people in the US, however, are deprived of basic rights merely because they aren't heteronormative. Believing that it's impossible to deny the h...

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General

Upsold Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality

Besbris Max

ISBN: PB: 9780226721378, ISBN: HB: 9780226721231, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold...

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Criminology

How to Catch a Killer Hunting and Capturing the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers

Ramsland Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781454939375, GMC Group, Sterling, July 2020
320 pp., 21x14 cm, illus.

There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the...

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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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