Fall/Winter 2010

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    Artful Assassins
    Murder as Art in Modern Mexico
    Fernando Fabio Sanchez
    Translated by Stephen Clark
    Translated by Stephen J. Clark
    Violence as a way of life, and murder as a political tool. This philosophy is nothing new to Mexico, most recently demonstrated in the wave of assassination and indiscriminate killing brought on b...
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    Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939
    Maite Zubiaurre
    To escape the heat of an August day in Madrid, Maite Zubiaurre ducked into an antique shop and there among world globes and old maps, she discovered a peculiar photo album. Tucked away among formal...
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    Family Secrets
    Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique
    Rachel R. Chapman
    Behind a thatched hut, a birthing woman bleeds to death only minutes from "life-saving" maternity care. Chapman begins with the deceptively simple question, "Why don't women in Mozambique use exis...
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    Family Secrets
    Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique
    Rachel R. Chapman
    Behind a thatched hut, a birthing woman bleeds to death only minutes from "life-saving" maternity care. Chapman begins with the deceptively simple question, "Why don't women in Mozambique use exis...
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    • Price $79.95
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    A Life of Control
    Stories of Living with Diabetes
    Alan L. Graber
    Anne W. Brown
    Kathleen Wolff
    Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upo...
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    A Life of Control
    Stories of Living with Diabetes
    Alan L. Graber
    Anne W. Brown
    Kathleen Wolff
    Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upo...
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    Missionary Scientists
    Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810
    Andres I. Prieto
    Missionary Scientists explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial Spanish America, revealing a little-known aspect of religions role in the scholarship of the early...
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    Reload
    Rethinking Violence in American Life
    Christopher B. Strain
    When incidents of extreme violence flare in America, all too often they are framed as isolated aberrations. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Christopher Strain argues in his new book,
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    Reload
    Rethinking Violence in American Life
    Christopher B. Strain
    When incidents of extreme violence flare in America, all too often they are framed as isolated aberrations. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Christopher Strain argues in his new book,
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    They Came to Nashville
    Marshall Chapman
    Foreword by Peter Guralnick
    "I didn't read this book as much as I inhaled it ... great insights into the ways of 15 great American creators." --William McKeen, author of Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. T...
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    Toward Wiser Public Judgment
    Edited by Daniel Yankelovich
    Edited by Will Friedman
    This work revisits and expands upon Yankelovichs seminal 1991 book, Coming to Public Judgment, which argued that people advance through several distinct stages to form politically meaningful...
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    Toward Wiser Public Judgment
    Edited by Daniel Yankelovich
    Edited by Will Friedman
    This work revisits and expands upon Yankelovichs seminal 1991 book, Coming to Public Judgment, which argued that people advance through several distinct stages to form politically meaningful...
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    • Price $27.95
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    The Woman in the Violence
    Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru
    M. Cristina Alcalde
    The Woman in the Violence draws on fieldwork conducted in Lima, Peru, one of the largest cities in Latin America, and the life stories of dozens of women to examine multiple forms of violenc...
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    • Price $55.00
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