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Political Science

Social Citizen Peer Networks and Political Behavior

Sinclair Betsy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922829, ISBN: HB: 9780226922812, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 tables, 20 line illus.

Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources...

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America

Political Science

Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Landis Dauber Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226923499, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
378 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 23 halftones, 1 line illus.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to...

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Culture Studies

General

SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...

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Education

Gender Studies

Sex Education Debates

Kendall Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922287, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 6 tables

Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for...

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America

Culture Studies

Stories of Our Collection Stories of Our Collection

ISBN: HB: 9780911028270, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
200 pp., 30x23 cm, colour throughout illus.

To mark its 125th anniversary, the Newberry has assembled one hundred and twenty-five of its most significant objects in one beautifully illustrated volume. Arranged in order to tell both the story of the library as an institution and its collecting...

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Reference

Storycraft The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

Hart Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226318165, ISBN: HB: 9780226318141, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 line illus.

From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the "New Yorker" essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach's "Stiff" or Erik Larson's "Devil in the White Ci...

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Music

Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland

Dawn Goss Glenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226005478, ISBN: HB: 9780226304779, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
549 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 47 musical examples, 36 halftones, 12 colour illus.

One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop o...

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Contemporary Art

Philosophy

Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp

de Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226922386, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 halftones

Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that c...

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Philosophy

Soul of the Greeks An Inquiry

Davis Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004495, ISBN: HB: 9780226137964, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm

The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal,...

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America

Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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