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Landscapes of Accumulation Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India

Guiu Searle Llerena

ISBN: PB: 9780226385068, ISBN: HB: 9780226384900, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 7 tables

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious...

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Law

Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don't Sue

Engel David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226305042, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 figures, 1 table

Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don't! For every "Whiplash Charlie" who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald's customer to pursue a claim over a too-hot cup of...

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Women Studies

Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora? The Story of a Mass Rape

Mushtaq Samreen, Batool Essar, Rather Natasha, Butt Ifrah, Rashid Munaza

ISBN: PB: 9789384757663, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2016
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian army stormed into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. Incensed at the villagers' refusal to share any information, soldiers pulled...

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General

Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

Wajcman Judy

ISBN: PB: 9780226380841, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster...

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America

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Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Assassin of Youth A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs

Chasin Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780226276977, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States' little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing ra...

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Literary Criticism

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Building Fires in the Snow A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry

Amore Martha, Childs Lucian

ISBN: PB: 9781602233010, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about...

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Women Studies

Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica

Rivers-Moore Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence

Geetha V.

ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...

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Christianity

To Care for Creation The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement

Ellingson Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226367385, ISBN: HB: 9780226367248, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV". The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as...

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