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Eric klinenberg is professor of sociology at new york university and author of going solo. Dying alone the social production of urban isolation eric klinenberg northwestern university, usa abstract in july 1995 over 700 chicago residents, most of them old and impoverished, died in a short but devastating heat wave. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a twoday heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. Husbands dying sooner than wives explains much of the sex differential as well. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the internet or via any other.
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