Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in ...
 The U.S. police state: Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing this excellent collection on the growing prison industrial complex of the United States, which is also being exported worldwide. There are 2.3 million people in cages here in [... more]
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Criminal Man
Criminal Man: Classic Book of Criminology: Though his theory of `the born criminal' is not likely to win many supporters today, Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), an Italian physician and criminologist, is now widely considered one of the most important [... more]
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
From Practice House (in Japan) to Practice House (in NC): Davidson Sensei's book is worthwhile just for the vignettes and anecdotes about a gaijin living in Japan in the 1980's. The book is even better as a discourse and commentary on the relative merits [... more]
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Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from ...
Amazon.com Review: Part of an excellent queer studies line from Duke University Press, Queer Iberia sheds light on the neglected topic of sexually diverse behaviors, bodies, and ideas in medieval and early-modern Iberia. The papers were sparked by a [... more]
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Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo
Ossman Explores Global Beauty: "Imagine you are getting a haircut. You hold a picture up beside your face, telling the beautician to cut a bit more here or feather the bangs, as in the photograph. In one salon you hear the voices of several women [... more]
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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q)
Important, but...: Lee Edleman's book poses important questions for all of us about "queerness" and resistance to our presumedly "normal" cultural investments in a redemptive future figured most vividly in the notion of the " [... more]
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Oslers A Way of Life and Other Addresses, with ...
straight from the doctor's plume: If you are a student of medicine (current, former, or hopeful), chances are that you will read at least one essay, address, or other writing of Sir William Osler. And, like all students past, you won't have a clue about [... more]
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The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child ...
Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-Irish Gothic: In a well-known scene of Gothic horror, Bram Stoker's Dracula "throws a moving, whimpering bag at the feet of his three wives." He offers it for their consumption in exchange for the man they have [... more]
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Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican ...
The unfulfilled promise of an Indian utopia in the Andes: Charles F. Walker's, Smoldering ashes: Cuzco and the creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840, primarily revolves around two individuals Tupac Amaru and Agustin Gamarra. The book is one in the Duke [... more]
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The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child ...
Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-Irish Gothic: In a well-known scene of Gothic horror, Bram Stoker's Dracula "throws a moving, whimpering bag at the feet of his three wives." He offers it for their consumption in exchange for the man they have [... more]
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The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin ...
A study at democracy through turmoil: By using variouus annotations on short stories the reader lives through many people which have helped create this nation. Events are told in first person that give realism to both their suffering and accomplishments. [... more]
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Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and ...
HIghly Recommended: Although this substantial book is published in the "American Encounters" series of Duke University Press, it is in fact a detailed and almost global account of the role of electronic communications (telegraph, cable, and [... more]
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