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Political Science

Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

Bernholz Lucy, Landemore Helene, Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226748573, ISBN: HB: 9780226748436, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over – and upending – nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ub...

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Cartography

Ecology

Mapping Nature across the Americas

Brosnan Kathleen A., Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226696430, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones, 2 tables

Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very...

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Genetics

Blood Relations Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics

Bangham Jenny

ISBN: PB: 9780226740034, ISBN: HB: 9780226739977, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human...

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Biography & Memoires

Off the Beaten Track The Story of My Unconventional Life

Bano Saeeda

ISBN: HB: 9789385932991, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Part...

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Philosophy

Collective Memory and the Historical Past

Barash Jeffrey Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226758466, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel...

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Mammals

Law

Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights

Bradshaw Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Brinkman Paul D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones

The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...

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America

Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Baynton Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...

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Poetry

2nd Chance

Becker Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781936970674, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2020
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in 2nd Chance are written in the voice of a doctor; the speaker often imagines he is talking to students, residents, patients, families – anyone who is ill or has witnessed illness and suffering. The poet, Daniel M. Becker, has been a physi...

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Poetry

Breathing Place

Bedient Cal

ISBN: PB: 9781632430823, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in The Breathing Place, Calvin Bedient's fifth collection of poetry, take in and move through three areas of consideration. Focusing first on the turmoil of an imperfect world before turning to raging social concerns, the poems finally come...

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