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America

Dinerstein Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226599069, ISBN: HB: 9780226152653, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

"Cool". It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. "The Origins of Cool in Postwar America" uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came...

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History

Osiris, Volume 33 Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories

Rieppel Lukas, Deringer William, Lean Eugenia

ISBN: PB: 9780226602325, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the "history of capital...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Palmyra An Irreplaceable Treasure

Veyne Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226600055, ISBN: HB: 9780226427829, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
128 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 13 colour plates

Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential c...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Charles Dickens A Year of Quotes

Dickens Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226563749, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, "The Daily Charles Dickens" is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved n...

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Anthropology

Reluctant Landscapes Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal

Richard Francois G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226252544, ISBN: HB: 9780226252407, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 11 tables

West African history is inseparable from the history of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. According to historical archaeologist Francois Richard, however, the dominance of this narrative not only colors the range of political discourse about...

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Jewish Studies

Not Bad for Delancey Street The Rise of Billy Rose

Cohen Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781611688900, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

He was amazing. "A little man with a Napoleonic penchant for the colossal and magnificent, Billy Rose is the country's No. 1 purveyor of mass entertainment", Life magazine announced in 1936. The Times reported that with 1,400 people on his payroll, R...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Third Edition, 2018-2019

Frankhart Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226578781, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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Political Science

Enchanted America How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics

Oliver J. Eric, Wood Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226578507, ISBN: HB: 9780226578477, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 line drawings, 2 tables

America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens re...

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Literary Criticism

Loving Literature A Cultural History

Lynch Deidre Shauna

ISBN: PB: 9780226598390, ISBN: HB: 9780226183701, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common – and perhaps the most wounding – is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studi...

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Fiction

Jewish Studies

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto

Pick J. R.

ISBN: HB: 9788024636993, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2018
212 pp., 19x14 cm, 30 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places – and even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Pick's novella "Society for...

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