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Women Studies

Women and Partition A Reader

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: PB: 9788189013363, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
400 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm

Urvashi Butalia's work on the subject of Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is internationally known. Her book "The Other Side of Silence" has been translated into more than ten languages and won several awards. In this new coll...

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General

Hinge Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226745664, ISBN: HB: 9780226745527, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social orga...

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Education

Gender Studies

Designing in Class Activities to Promote Equity and Inclusion

Kumar Rita, Refaei Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781947602199, ISBN: HB: 9781947602236, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

According to recent research by scholar Lauren Musu-Gillette, college enrollment of traditional-aged students has increased notably in the past twenty years, with significant increases in the number of African-American and Hispanic males and Hispanic...

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America

General

Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Criminology

Extreme Killers Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers

Newton Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781454939405, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2021
320 pp., 20.8x14 cm, illus.

For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most "elite" serial killers – master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and intern...

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Journals

Women Studies

Happy Hormone Tracker A Wellness Journal for Monthly Cycle Tracking and Hormone Balance for Women

Leparski Shannon

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781950968176, GMC Group, Blue Star Press, January 2021
125 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Track your hormonal patterns and get to know your menstrual cycle in a more intimate way using this stylish and functional personal wellness planner for women. This first-of-its-kind 90-day hormone tracker journa...

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Ecology

Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology

Tarinski Yavor, Schismenos Alexandros

ISBN: PB: 9781551647739, ISBN: HB: 9781551647753, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activ...

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Women Studies

Foot in the Door Dalit Women in Panchayati Raj in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu

Mangubhai Jayshree, Irudayam Aloysius S. J., Sydenham Emma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932939, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their political oppression. The authors examine the patri...

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America

Women Studies

Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women

Moon Katie J.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...

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Psychology

General

Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague Causes, Contexts and Prospects

Vagnerova Marie, Csemy Ladislav, Marek Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024645254, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situa...

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