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Upsold Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality

Besbris Max

ISBN: PB: 9780226721378, ISBN: HB: 9780226721231, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold...

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Contemporary Art

Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones

Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...

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History

Making Modern Science Second Edition

Bowler Peter J., Rhys Morus Iwan

ISBN: PB: 9780226365763, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones, 14 line drawings

In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its infl...

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Music

Nadia Boulanger and Her World

Brooks Jeanice

ISBN: PB: 9780226750712, ISBN: HB: 9780226750682, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers – especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass – studying...

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Ancient World

Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State

Beck Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226711485, ISBN: HB: 9780226711348, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings

Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. Wh...

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Political Science

Making Social Welfare Policy in America Three Case Studies since 1950

Berkowitz Edward D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226692234, ISBN: HB: 9780226692067, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. "Making Soc...

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History

Europe

Time Travelers Victorian Encounters with Time and History

Buckland Adelene, Qureshi Sadiah

ISBN: PB: 9780226676791, ISBN: HB: 9780226676654, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...

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Criminology

Beyond the Usual Beating The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago

Baer Andrew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700472, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge's decades-long tenure...

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Ecology

Surroundings A History of Environments and Environmentalisms

Benson Etienne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706290, ISBN: HB: 9780226706153, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it's easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings, we learn that the environmental past is mu...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Torture and Dignity An Essay on Moral Injury

Bernstein J. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226708874, ISBN: HB: 9780226266329, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations – torture – J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructio...

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