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How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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Remittance Landscape Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA

Lopez Sarah Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226202815, ISBN: HB: 9780226105130, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico – one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With "The Remittance Landscape", Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with th...

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Philosophy

Walls Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Oles Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226199245, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pe...

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Philosophy

Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection

Angerer Marie-Luise, Bosel Bernd, Ott Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...

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Children of the Land Adversity and Success in Rural America

Elder Glen H., Conger Rand D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212531, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
394 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 37 line drawings, 56 tables

A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age...

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Homelessness as an Alternative Existence of Young People

Vagnerova Marie, Csemy Ladislav, Marek Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024625171, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
320 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 27 line drawings, 2 maps, 79 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The chronically homeless face a stark reality: lack of access to support systems, adequate shelter, and sustenance, with little hope for something better. For young people, however, life o...

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Gender Studies

Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: PB: 9780226211725, ISBN: HB: 9780226038353, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone – or oneself – was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic ele...

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Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery

DeGloma Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...

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Abductive Analysis Theorizing Qualitative Research

Tavory Iddo, Timmermans Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226180311, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

In "Abductive Analysis", Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory formation without locking it int...

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