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History

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Dreamscapes of Modernity Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

Jasanoff Sheila, Kim Sang-Hyun

ISBN: PB: 9780226276526, ISBN: HB: 9780226276496, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

"Dreamscapes of Modernity" offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological p...

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Education

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Secret Lives of Teachers

ISBN: HB: 9780226313627, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Welcome to "East Hudson", an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have litt...

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Corporate Social Responsibility? Human Rights in the New Global Economy

Walker-Said Charlotte, Kelly John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226244303, ISBN: HB: 9780226244273, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and set...

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Philosophy

Ideas in History Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas 8:2

Dorfman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9788763543262, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2015
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ideas in History" is the result of collaborative efforts between nearly a dozen universities and colleges to further awareness of research, resources, and activities in the field of intellectual history in Nordic countries and internationally. It en...

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Military

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Social Science Goes to War The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan

McFate Montgomery, Laurence Janice H.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044219, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed...

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Souls of Black Folk

Du Bois W. E. B., Holloway Jonathan Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300195828, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black histor...

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Culture Studies

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Insane Chicago Way The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia

Hagedorn John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226232935, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 12 tables

"The Insane Chicago Way" is the untold story of a daring plan by Chicago gangs in the 1990s to create a Spanish Mafia – and why it failed. John M. Hagedorn traces how Chicago Latino gang leaders, following in Al Capone's footsteps, built a sophistica...

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Generations and Collective Memory

Corning Amy, Schuman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226282664, ISBN: HB: 9780226282527, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 34 line drawings, 15 tables

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuma...

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Survey Measurements Techniques, Data Quality and Sources of Error

Engel Uwe

ISBN: PB: 9783593502809, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
239 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 28 halftones

The accuracy of a survey is directly affected by how the survey is presented, how the questions are worded, and what the format is for responses. In addition, survey methods continue to develop at an accelerating rate to keep step with technological...

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Culture Studies

Producing Cultural Diversity Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects

Niedner-Kalthoff Ulrike

ISBN: PB: 9783593503165, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
245 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate

How did cultural diversity become a buzzword fraught with tension? And what do the controversies surrounding it reveal about contemporary policy making? "Producing Cultural Diversity" investigates these questions through an empirical analysis of the...

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