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Education

Making Up Our Mind What School Choice Is Really About

Ben-Porath Sigal R., Johanek Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226619637, ISBN: HB: 9780226619460, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the Uni...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine

Berndt Ernst R., Goldman Dana P., Rowe John

ISBN: HB: 9780226611068, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 line drawings, 67 tables

ersonalized and precision medicine (PPM) – the targeting of therapies according to an individual's genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics – is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The adva...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring/Summer 2019, Issue 47

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Stankievech Charles, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Rujoiu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9781846382024, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
175 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Launched in 1999, "Afterall" is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. I...

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Psychology

Emotionally Disturbed A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children

Blythe Doroshow Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226621432, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 line drawings

Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental...

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Poetry

44th of July

Bolina Jaswinder

ISBN: PB: 9781632430649, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

This is a book about Americans. Not the ones brunching in Park Slope or farming in Wranglers or trading synergies in a boardroom; they are not executives or socialites. They are not the salt of the earth. Nor are they huddled masses yearning to breat...

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Children's Books

Women Studies

Fighter in Velvet Gloves Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

Boochever Annie, Peratrovich Jr. Roy

ISBN: PB: 9781602233706, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

"No Natives or Dogs Allowed", blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after becoming a seasoned fighter for equality, she would d...

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Reference

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Second Edition)

Belcher Wendy Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226499918, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

"Wow. No one ever told me this!" Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics on how to write journal articles. Scholars know they must publish, but few have been told how to do so. So Bel...

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Philosophy

Thinking in the Past Tense Eight Conversations

Bevilacqua Alexander, Clark Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780226601205, ISBN: HB: 9780226601175, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If the vibrancy on display in "Thinking in the Past Tense" is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims wit...

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Film Studies

Reinventing Hollywood How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226639550, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
592 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 halftones

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different ch...

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Reference

Writing Fiction A Guide to Narrative Craft (Tenth Edition)

Burroway Janet, Stuckey-French Elizabeth, Stuckey-French Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226616698, ISBN: HB: 9780226616551, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

More than 250,000 copies sold! A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and "Writing Fiction". Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America,...

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