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Jewish Studies

Europe

Holocaust Mothers and Daughters Family, History, and Trauma

Clementi Federica K.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684766, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-hum...

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Criminology

Hoodlums Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life

Van Deburg William L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226104638, ISBN: HB: 9780226847191, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes – individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Harlem The Unmaking of a Ghetto

Vergara Camilo Jose

ISBN: HB: 9780226853369, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
269 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates

For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture – but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, viole...

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America

Home Front Daily Life in the Civil War North

Brownlee Peter John, Burns Sarah, Dillon Diane, Greene Daniel, Manning Stevens Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226061856, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 90 colour plates

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as...

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Literary Criticism

Homer in Print Catalogue of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana at the University of Chicago Library

Most Glenn W., Schreyer Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780943056418, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 65 colour illus.

"Homer in Print" traces the print transmission and literary reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. Over 175 mini essays provide new details of each included edition's textual, intellectual, and publis...

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Political Science

Media Studies

How Partisan Media Polarize America

Levendusky Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226069012, ISBN: HB: 9780226068961, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 18 tables

Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable...

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Fiction

Hot Death A Collection of Stories Old and New

Padmanabhan Manjula

ISBN: PB: 9789381017616, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

From the award-winning writer of the acclaimed play "Harvest", this debut collection of stories will electrify readers with its unusual, radical, and troubling themes. Here are ten tales, some new, some old, and all of them edgy. In biting and satiri...

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Poetry

Culture Studies

Hollywood & God

Polito Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226103655, ISBN: HB: 9780226673394, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
88 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm

"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing – even lurid – hallucination. From the "Baltimore Catechism" to the great noir films of t...

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Business & Economics

Housing and the Financial Crisis

Glaeser Edward L., Sinai Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226030586, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 125 line drawings, 68 tables

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no differ...

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Political Science

Health Care for Some Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

Hoffman Beatrix

ISBN: PB: 9780226102191, ISBN: HB: 9780226348032, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones

The 2010 Affordable Care Act is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed country in the world considers health care a right, the passage of the act in the United States was hard fought because...

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