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Philosophy

Cowley Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226267920, ISBN: HB: 9780226267890, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero – even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after Facebook post, about themselves. Literary theori...

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Chemistry

Life Atomic A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine

Creager Angela N. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323961, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, October 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 21 line drawings

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxi...

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Business & Economics

Enterprising America Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective

Collins William J., Margo Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261621, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 46 tables

The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world's most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the...

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Travel

Literary Criticism

Dead Ladies Project Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

Crispin Jessa

ISBN: PB: 9780226278452, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understa...

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Political Science

Legislating in the Dark Information and Power in the House of Representatives

Curry James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226281711, ISBN: HB: 9780226281681, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 figures, 17 tables

The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn't even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Summer 2015, Issue 39

Cahill Zachary, Gronlund Melissa, Kreuger Anders, Lafuente Pablo, Vilalta Helena

ISBN: PB: 9781846381577, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

"Afterall", a journal of contemporary art, provides a forum for analysis of art's context and seeks to inspire artists to see art as an agency for change. Each issue contains in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with ess...

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Biography & Memoires

Calling of History Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth

Chakrabarty Dipesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226100456, ISBN: HB: 9780226100449, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he...

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General

Generations and Collective Memory

Corning Amy, Schuman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226282664, ISBN: HB: 9780226282527, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 34 line drawings, 15 tables

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuma...

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America

Holy Nation The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution

Crabtree Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226255767, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in "Holy Nation" Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Q...

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Cartography

Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

Carlton Genevieve

ISBN: HB: 9780226255316, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In "Worldly Consumers", Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to priva...

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