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What About Mozart? What About Murder? Reasoning From Cases

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226166490, ISBN: HB: 9780226166353, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end...

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Architecture

Enric Miralles from Left to Right (and without Glasses)

Bestue David

ISBN: PB: 9788461369348, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, August 2014
384 pp., 27.9x15.2 cm, 405 colour plates

A thoroughly unconventional monograph on the work of contemporary architect Enric Miralles, this book by acclaimed artist David Bestue combines the forms of essay, diary, notebook, and more to create a book that is simultaneously an analysis of artis...

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Sport

Black Men Can't Shoot

Brooks Scott N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211411, ISBN: HB: 9780226076034, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 tables

The myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it's usually talked about only when a sports commentator or celebrity embarrasses himself by bringing it up in public. Those gaffes are swiftly decried as racist, but apart from their lin...

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Business & Economics

Risk Topography Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling

Brunnermeier Markus, Krishnamurthy Arvind

ISBN: HB: 9780226077734, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 line drawings, 14 tables

The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models i...

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Political Science

Criminology

Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Burch Traci

ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables

The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...

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History

Europe

Science and Emotions after 1945 A Transatlantic Perspective

Biess Frank, Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126487, ISBN: HB: 9780226126340, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rati...

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America

Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Bacon Hales Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226313153, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
496 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 halftones

Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through "Outside the Gates of Eden", Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic ag...

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Literary Criticism

Literary Life of Things Case Studies in American Fiction

Barbel Tischleder Babette

ISBN: PB: 9783593500065, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2014
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 colour plates

Material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Contemplating the aesthetic and nar...

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Political Science

Empire of Civilization The Evolution of an Imperial Idea

Bowden Brett

ISBN: PB: 9780226142401, ISBN: HB: 9780226068145, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as "civilized" – or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopoliti...

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Political Science

Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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