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Political Science

State Constitutional Politics Governing by Amendment in the American States

Dinan John

ISBN: PB: 9780226532813, ISBN: HB: 9780226532783, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a re...

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Philosophy

No Exit Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization

Di-Capua Yoav

ISBN: PB: 9780226503509, ISBN: HB: 9780226499741, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades – from the end of World War II until the late 1960s – existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsi...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 2 A Narrative History from 1877

Dailey Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226300825, ISBN: HB: 9780226300795, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 haltfones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Conservation Paleobiology Science and Practice

Dietl Gregory P., Flessa Karl W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226506722, ISBN: HB: 9780226506692, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 60 halftones

In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduce...

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Poetry

Woman Prime Poems

DiMaggio Gail C.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233423, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles she's called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very...

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Philosophy

Europe

What Nostalgia Was War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Dodman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226492940, ISBN: HB: 9780226492803, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it coul...

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Poetry

Senses of Style Poetry before Interpretation

Dolven Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780226517117, ISBN: HB: 9780226517087, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing

Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism – especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Other Transatlantic Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Dziewanska Marta, Roelstraete Dieter, Winograd Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9788364177422, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2018
250 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "The Other Transatlantic" is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin Amer...

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Education

Color of Mind Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice

Darby Derrick, Rury John L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226525358, ISBN: HB: 9780226525211, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 tables

American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In "The Color of Mind", Derrick Darby an...

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Cartography

Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

Davies John, Kent Alexander J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226389578, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 25x15 cm, 282 colour plates

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of d...

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