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Saint Friend
ISBN: PB: 9780887486432, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2020
72 pp., 24.1x13.9 cm
These are the people we are. Saint Friend, carry me when I am tired and carry yourself. Let's keep singing the songs we don't live by let's meet tomorrow. "Saint Friend" is a book of empathy. Its ten lyric poems are troubled with the prospect of sat...
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Against Fairness
ISBN: PB: 9780226702124, ISBN: HB: 9780226029863, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 23 line illus.
From the school yard to the workplace, there's no charge more damning than "You're being unfair!" Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics – Lady Justice – wea...
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Character Three Inquiries in Literary Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226658667, ISBN: HB: 9780226658520, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, "Character"...
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Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...
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Daily Jane Austen A Year of Quotes
ISBN: PB: 9780226655444, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit a...
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Murder in New Orleans The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
ISBN: HB: 9780226643311, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940 –...
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£27,00
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Economics of Artificial Intelligence An Agenda
ISBN: HB: 9780226613338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings, 21 tables
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. I...
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Bitter English
ISBN: PB: 9780226642642, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the home – and parents – you left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative...
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Alaska in the Progressive Age A Political History, 1896 to 1916
ISBN: PB: 9781602233843, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of...
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Fear of Child Sexuality Young People, Sex, and Agency
ISBN: PB: 9780226648637, ISBN: HB: 9780226648460, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Continued public outcries over such issues as young models in sexually suggestive ads and intimate relationships between teachers and students speak to one of the most controversial fears of our time: the entanglement of children and sexuality. In th...
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