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Political Science

Insurgent Democracy The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Lansing Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434773, ISBN: HB: 9780226283500, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counte...

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Philosophy

Public Health

Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing

Leder Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226396101, ISBN: HB: 9780226396071, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditi...

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Anthropology

Music

Tango Machine Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

Luker Morgan James

ISBN: PB: 9780226385549, ISBN: HB: 9780226385402, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music – it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan...

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Political Science

Moral Politics How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Third Edition)

Lakoff George

ISBN: PB: 9780226411293, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
512 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When "Moral Politics" was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals...

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Europe

Anthropology

Value of Labor The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956

Lampland Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226314600, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 tables

At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Mar...

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Education

Growing Each Other Up When Our Children Become Our Teachers

Lawrence-Lightfoot Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780226188409, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From growing their children, parents grow themselves, learning the lessons their children teach".Growing up", then, is as much a developmental process of parenthood as it is of childhood. While countless books have been written about the challenges o...

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Political Science

America

Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409047, ISBN: HB: 9780226408996, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 23 line drawings, 18 tables

As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing i...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 23

Levin Theodore, Masuda Ryo, Kenstowicz Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781575867526, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2016
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

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Music

Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism

Loughridge Deirdre

ISBN: HB: 9780226337098, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 68 musical examples, 4 tables

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, as audiences started to revel in the pure sounds of the...

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Contemporary Art

Essential Paul Laffoley Works from the Boston Visionary Cell

Laffoley Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226315416, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 28x28 cm, 118 colour plates, 15 halftones

Paul Laffoley, who once worked for Frederick Kiesler and Andy Warhol, emerged in recent years as one of the leading visionary artists of our time. Lavishly illustrated, "The Essential Paul Laffoley" documents the evolution of his unique intellectual,...

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