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America

World More Concrete Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

Connolly N. D. B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226115146, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 3 maps

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In "A World More Concrete", N. D. B. Connolly uses the hist...

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Music

Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

Corbett John

ISBN: PB: 9780226353807, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
112 pp., 15.8x10.7 cm

Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations – all these sounds seem like so much noodling o...

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Political Science

America

Politics of Resentment Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Cramer Katherine J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226349114, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall t...

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Philosophy

Biopower Foucault and Beyond

Cisney Vernon W., Morar Nicolae

ISBN: PB: 9780226226620, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In "The History of Sexuality: An Introduction", Foucault famously employed the ter...

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Evolution

Ecology

Coevolution of Life on Hosts Integrating Ecology and History

Clayton Dale H., Bush Sarah E., Johnson Kevin P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302270, ISBN: HB: 9780226302133, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables

For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts. But for a certain breed of biologist, lice make for fascinating scientific fodder...

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Jewish Studies

Military

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

Cohen Hillel

ISBN: PB: 9781611688115, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as y...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226116006, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 155 colour plates, 1 table

Frogs are worshipped for bringing nourishing rains, but blamed for devastating floods. Turtles are admired for their wisdom and longevity, but ridiculed for their sluggish and cowardly behavior. Snakes are respected for their ability to heal and rest...

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Music

Europe

Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power

Cusick Suzanne G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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General

Culture Studies

Fast, Easy, and In Cash Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy

Colloredo-Mansfeld Rudi, Antrosio Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226302614, ISBN: HB: 9780226302584, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 30 halftones, 7 line drawings

"Artisan" has become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving rea...

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