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Africa

Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

McDonnell Terence E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382159, ISBN: HB: 9780226382012, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 line drawing

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate peopl...

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Political Science

Natural Goodness of Man On the System of Rousseau's Thought

Melzer Arthur M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226519791, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the "natural goodness of man". It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigor...

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Asia

Rural Modern Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China

Merkel-Hess Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226383279, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical...

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Business & Economics

Five Life Decisions How Economic Principles and 18 Million Millennials Can Guide Your Thinking

Michael Robert T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226354446, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 tables

Choices matter. And in your teens and twenties, some of the biggest life decisions come about when you feel the least prepared to tackle them. Economist Robert T. Michael won't tell you what to choose. Instead, he'll show you how to make smarter choi...

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America

Nut Country Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Miller Edward H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421216, ISBN: HB: 9780226205380, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today". That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city th...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Professor Kant's Incredible Day

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783037345955, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Biography & Memoires

Doing Time with Nehru The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family

Marsh Yin

ISBN: PB: 9789384757809, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 10 halftones, 8 line drawings, 10 maps

It's midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, "We're coming in! Get on the floor!" A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men, disappearing into the night. This scenario is the...

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Political Science

America

Inside the Presidential Debates Their Improbable Past and Promising Future

Minow Newton N., LaMay Craig L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434322, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 tables

Newton Minow's long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As its head, Minow would famously dub TV a "vast wasteland", thus inaugur...

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Political Science

Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Countries

Mukherjee Bumba

ISBN: PB: 9780226358819, ISBN: HB: 9780226358789, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 36 line drawings, 27 tables

Since the 1970s, two major trends have emerged among developing countries: the rise of new democracies and the rush to free trade. For some, the confluence of these events suggests that a free-market economy complements a fledgling democracy. Others...

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Anthropology

Gift Expanded Edition

Mauss Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9780990505006, University of Chicago Press, HAU, May 2016
237 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss' masterpiece, The Gift. With this new translation, Mauss' classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the...

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