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Fiction

Nature of Remains

Eager Ginger

ISBN: PB: 9781936970643, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
478 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the tiny town of Flyshoals, Georgia, karma is writ small enough to witness. When Doreen Swilley discovers that her boss, who is also her lover, intends to fire her in order to placate his dying wife, she devises a plan to steal his business from h...

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Europe

General

Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland

Engelstein Laura

ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...

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Education

General

Ghosts in the Schoolyard Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

Ewing Eve L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226526164, ISBN: HB: 9780226526027, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools". That's how Eve L. Ewing opens "Ghosts in the Schoolyard": describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other sc...

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Contemporary Art

Mythology of Forms Selected Writings on Art

Einstein Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780226464138, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 78 halftones

The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors...

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History

Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics

Epple Moritz, Imhausen Annette, Muller Falk

ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...

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Business & Economics

Law

Bankrupt in America A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century

Eschelbach Hansen Mary, Hansen Bradley A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226679563, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 8 tables

In 2005, more than two million Americans – six out of every 1,000 people – filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In "Ban...

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Contemporary Art

Ai Weiwei Bare Life

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316468, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, December 2019
192 pp., 22.8x26.6 cm, 90 colour plates

Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cult...

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Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment

Edney Matthew H., Sponberg Pedley Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226184753, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
1920 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 962 colour plates, 4 line drawings, 6 tables

Since its launch in 1987, the "History of Cartography" series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. "Cartography in the European Enlightenment", the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a com...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2018 Volume 33

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645728, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
500 pp., 23x15 cm

This volume contains six studies on current topics in macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational expectations is unrealistic, a finite-horizon forward planning model can yield results similar to those of a rational expectations equi...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Gershom Scholem An Intellectual Biography

Engel Amir

ISBN: PB: 9780226683324, ISBN: HB: 9780226428635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, W...

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