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Political Science

Partisans and Partners The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society

Pacewicz Josh

ISBN: PB: 9780226402697, ISBN: HB: 9780226402550, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 14 tables

There's no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in "Partisans and Partners", Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic. Wheels-down in Iowa – that m...

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America

New Math A Political History

Phillips Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421490, ISBN: HB: 9780226184968, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 196...

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Jewish Studies

Raising Secular Jews Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950

Prawer Kadar Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611689877, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This unique literary study of Yiddish children's periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schoo...

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Fiction

Norte A Novel

Paz Soldan Edmundo

ISBN: PB: 9780226207209, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico-US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they mee...

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Biography & Memoires

Man Who Stole Himself The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

Palsson Gisli

ISBN: HB: 9780226313283, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 49 halftones

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things – majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood – but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family...

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Media Studies

That's the Way It Is A History of Television News in America

Ponce de Leon Charles L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421520, ISBN: HB: 9780226472454, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charl...

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Children's Books

Little Whale A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe

Peratrovich Roy A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232952, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 line illus., 1 map

Keet, a ten-year-old Tlingit Indian boy, stows away for a voyage on his father's canoe... and soon finds himself caught in the middle of a wild seastorm. The story carries him far from his home village, and when he makes land, he winds up right in th...

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Philosophy

Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

Peters John Durham

ISBN: PB: 9780226421353, ISBN: HB: 9780226253831, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are...

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Cartography

Medieval Islamic Maps An Exploration

Pinto Karen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226126968, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 162 colour plates

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies t...

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America

Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England before the Civil War

Paretsky Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780226337746, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky's work has long been inflected with history – for her charac...

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