Off the Books--Sudhir Venkatesh on the underground economy
Venoff_2Sudhir Venkatesh has spent years living and working among the urban poor in an effort to understand how people live amid poverty and how they survive when the government is not available to regulate economic exchange.
2006 Chicago Books in Review: Nonfiction
Adler (Harvard University Press, 367 pages) Adler examined thousands of homicide cases for this fascinating look at violence in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth-century. A Field Guide to Gay & Lesbian Chicago
Development as a Human Right
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health has just released a fantastic collection of essays entitled Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions,
Noted today
ElmculIn the New York Times--"China Pursues Major Role in Particle Physics." Those who want to learn more about the history of science in China should consult our appropriately-titled A Cultural History of Modern Science in China,
Washington Post "Best Nonfiction"
Hutsea_1_1We're pleased to announce that George Hutchinson's In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line has been selected by the Washington Post as one of the "Best Nonfiction" books of 2006. Our last two posts on the book
Introducing: Gamer Theory
Suffice it to say that it'll be one of the more provocative university press books you're going to see. For now, get a taste of how Wark operates by watching this interview he did inside the video game Halo--an interview that ends with
Drinking while pregnant
The warnings came after researchers at the University of Washington identified Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, a group of physical and mental birth defects caused by alcohol consumption, in 1973. In its recommendations, the government does not
Athletics drexel university
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The Popularisation of the Hacker Ethic
of Intellectual Property rights through the theft of music. […] Seite 16 ff. Notes. Wark, McKenzie, A Hacker Manifesto, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 2004. Tags: Hacking Darknet Hacker-Ethic George-Grinsted Network-Culture
Our distributed books
serves as a distributor for several smaller Harvard-affiliated publishers. own list and benefits the university as a whole by providing departments with The Peabody Museum Press Subject areas include Old World and New World
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