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Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent

Beauregard Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535388, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress wi...

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Credulity A Cultural History of US Mesmerism

Ogden Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226532332, ISBN: HB: 9780226532165, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the...

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America

Crossing Parish Boundaries Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954

Neary Timothy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565989, ISBN: HB: 9780226388762, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialis...

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Asia

China Visions through the Ages

Niziolek Lisa C., Bekken Deborah A., Feinman Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226385372, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
354 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour plates, 1 table

At the entrance of The Field Museum's Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion's paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cu...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Conservation Paleobiology Science and Practice

Dietl Gregory P., Flessa Karl W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226506722, ISBN: HB: 9780226506692, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 60 halftones

In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduce...

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Constellations of Inequality Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil

Mitchell Sean T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226499260, ISBN: HB: 9780226499123, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 map

In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with di...

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Philosophy

Creatively Undecided Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

Fisch Menachem

ISBN: PB: 9780226514512, ISBN: HB: 9780226514482, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions. By turning our attention...

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Education

Color of Mind Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice

Darby Derrick, Rury John L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226525358, ISBN: HB: 9780226525211, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 tables

American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In "The Color of Mind", Derrick Darby an...

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Philosophy

Jewish Studies

Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Arendt Hannah, Scholem Gershom

ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 45 Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226440804, ISBN: HB: 9780226440774, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives" is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julia...

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