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Education

American School Reform What Works, What Fails, and Why

McDonald Joseph P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226124728, ISBN: HB: 9780226124698, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, "American School Reform" offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluat...

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Political Science

Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems A Comparative Approach

Green-Pedersen Christoffer, Walgrave Stefaan

ISBN: PB: 9780226128306, ISBN: HB: 9780226128276, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 figures, 11 tables

Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of atten...

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General

AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

Smith Daniel Jordan

ISBN: PB: 9780226108834, ISBN: HB: 9780226108667, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equat...

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Fiction

Agents and Patients A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137353, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring 2014, Issue 35

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381393, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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Children's Books

Travel

Alaska on the Go Exploring the 49th State with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232211, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Nearly two million people visit Alaska every year, drawn to its spectacular views and endless activities. But with such size and so many options, it can seem overwhelming when it comes to planning a family vacation to the 49th state. The best place t...

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Mammals

Atlas of Selected Land Vertebrates of Madagascar

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne

ISBN: HB: 9782953892352, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
308 pp., 40x29 cm, 446 colour plates and maps

One of the largest islands in the world, Madagascar is home to an astonishing array of endemic vertebrate biodiversity. While recent decades have seen numerous publications on the subject – ranging from technical papers to species descriptions and fi...

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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization The Evolution of an Urban Landscape

Algaze Guillermo

ISBN: PB: 9780226142371, ISBN: HB: 9780226013770, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 9 maps, 6 line drawings, 1 figure, 1 table

The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization", owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millen...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2013, Issue 34

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381300, University of Chicago Press, January 2014
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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