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Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class
ISBN: PB: 9780300216936, Yale University Press, December 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...
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Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display
ISBN: PB: 9780226315249, ISBN: HB: 9780226315102, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
All museums are sex museums. In "Sex Museums", Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality – particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed – and asks what role museums have played in using disp...
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£28,00
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25 Women Essays on Their Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226333151, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
192 pp., 22x18.4 cm, 26 colour plates, 1 halftone
Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging". Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer". Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero". There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey – and...
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Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...
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£32,00
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Music and Capitalism A History of the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780226311975, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 3 tables
iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical – they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasiv...
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It's a Small World International Deaf Spaces and Encounters
ISBN: HB: 9781563686528, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 11 figures
"It's a Small World" explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME ("I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same") and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national...
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£52,50
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Database of Dreams The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780300209525, Yale University Press, November 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights p...
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Tourist Attractions Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780226309101, ISBN: HB: 9780226309071, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing
While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In "Tourist Attractions", Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that foc...
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226345222, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
456 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 13 halftones
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members – among the...
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Shared Future Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226306025, ISBN: HB: 9780226305974, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 25 line drawings
Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In "A...
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