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Education

Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education

Anteby Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226323510, ISBN: HB: 9780226092478, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure facu...

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Europe

Psychiatry

On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820

Arnaud Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...

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Public Health

Risky Medicine Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty

Aronowitz Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226049717, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health?Not always, says Robert Aronowitz in "Risky Medicine". In fact...

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Media Studies

From Voice to Influence Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age

Allen Danielle, Light Jennifer S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262260, ISBN: HB: 9780226262123, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 7 figures

How have online protests – like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood – changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around curr...

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Psychology

Rethinking Therapeutic Culture

Aubry Timothy, Travis Trysh

ISBN: PB: 9780226250137, ISBN: HB: 9780226249933, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Social critics have long lamented America's descent into a "culture of narcissism", as Christopher Lasch so lastingly put it fifty years ago. From "first world problems" to political correctness, from the Oprahfication of emotional discourse to the d...

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History

Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Philosophy

Kierkegaard and Political Theory Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual

Avanessian Armen, Wennerscheid Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9788763541541, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Soren Kierkegaard's radical protestant philosophy of the individual – in which a person's leap of faith is favored over general ethics – has become a model for many contemporary political theorists. Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou have...

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Culture Studies

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution The Art of the Cut

Amann Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226187259, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraug...

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General

Philosophy

Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection

Angerer Marie-Luise, Bosel Bernd, Ott Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...

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Biography & Memoires

Once Upon a Life Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir

Ao Temsula

ISBN: PB: 9789381017982, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
248 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm

Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Tesmula Ao lost both her parents in quick succession when she was young. Left to fend for themselves, she and her five siblings ran wild, skipping school and wandering the streets. But when the authorities...

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