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Jewish Studies

Style and Seduction Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna

Shapira Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611689211, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identificati...

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Music

Kwaito's Promise Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

Steingo Gavin

ISBN: PB: 9780226362540, ISBN: HB: 9780226362403, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed "kwaito" – a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generati...

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Political Science

America

Madison's Nightmare How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy

Shane Peter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380704, ISBN: HB: 9780226749396, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
255 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The George W. Bush administration's ambitious – even breathtaking – claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush's attempts to assert his power...

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Philosophy

Foundations of Natural Morality On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law

Seagrave S. Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226380674, ISBN: HB: 9780226123431, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between t...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History

History Within The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules

Sommer Marianne

ISBN: HB: 9780226347325, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 6 line drawings

Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry. com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Shilo Margalit

ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...

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Europe

England's Great Transformation Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

Steinberg Marc W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226329956, ISBN: HB: 9780226329819, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

With "England's Great Transformation", Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi's landmark "The Great Transformation". The conventional wisdom...

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Gender Studies

Before and After Gender Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life

Strathern Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780986132537, University of Chicago Press, HAU, April 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's "Before and After Gender" was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology...

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Reference

Writer's Diet A Guide to Fit Prose

Sword Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780226351988, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
88 pp., 19x13.9 cm

Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, "The Writer's Diet" is for you! It's a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with e...

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Contemporary Art

America

Lofts of SoHo Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980

Shkuda Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226334189, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 3 tables

American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was...

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