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Model Cases On Canonical Research Objects and Sites
ISBN: PB: 9780226780832, ISBN: HB: 9780226780665, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables
We all know scientists study a predictable set of organisms when performing research, whether they be mice, fruit flies, or less commonly known but widely used species of snail or worm. But when we think of the so-called humanistic social sciences, w...
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Segregation by Experience Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades
ISBN: PB: 9780226765617, ISBN: HB: 9780226765587, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 tables
Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students' fascination to create unique learning opportunities. Some teachers engage with their students' ideas in ways that make learning co...
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Shooting Up A History of Drugs in Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9781849048835, ISBN: HB: 9781849045513, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Shooting Up" is a comprehensive and original history of the relationship between fighting men and intoxicants, from Antiquity till the present day. Lukasz Kamienski explores why and how drugs have been issued to soldiers to in...
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Threadbare Class and Crime in Urban Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602233409, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2017
125 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Alaska's perch at the geographic corner of civilization isn't all wilderness and reality TV. There's a darker side too. Above the 49th parallel some of the nation's highest rates of alcoholism, suicide, and violent crime can be found. While it can ea...
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Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City
ISBN: PB: 9780226435589, ISBN: HB: 9780226435442, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables
America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars – both public and private – fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash m...
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Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society
ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...
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Fatal Isolation The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003
ISBN: HB: 9780226251110, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 2 line drawings
In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the...
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Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226276182, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Mete...
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2001 and Counting Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9780984201051, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2014
100 pp., 17.7x11.5 cm, 2 halftones
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is widely recognized as a cult classic. Despite mixed critical reception, the dark and difficult movie mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one the highest g...
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Gender, Work and Property An Ethnographic Study of Value in a Spanish Village
ISBN: PB: 9783593396613, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
250 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Why do young men born in many small villages in Spain tend, at the end of the twentieth century, to stay there, often remaining unmarried, while young women from the same villages tend to leave? In "Gender, Work and Property", Nancy Konvalinka explor...
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