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America

Making the Unequal Metropolis School Desegregation and Its Limits

Erickson Ansley T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528915, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's "Making the Unequal Metropolis" presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school polici...

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Film Studies

Awake in the Dark The Best of Roger Ebert (Second Edition)

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226460864, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. From Ebert's Pulitzer Prize to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, from...

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Criminology

Big House on the Prairie Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation

Eason John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226410340, ISBN: HB: 9780226410203, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 3 line drawings, 5 tables

For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country bu...

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Photography

Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316420, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2017
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour plates

In 2015, the "U. S. News & World Report" raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum "houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country".Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum" commemorates the museum's...

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Contemporary Art

1971 A Year in the Life of Color

English Darby

ISBN: HB: 9780226131054, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
312 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 47 colour plates, 26 halftones

In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: "Contemporary Black Artists in America", at the Whi...

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Law

General

Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

Edelman Lauren B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...

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Culture Studies

Gardening

Orchid A Cultural History

Endersby Jim

ISBN: HB: 9780226376325, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 23x15.5 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones

At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchid have carried symbolic weight in countless cultures over time. The ancient Greeks...

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Film Studies

Great Movies IV

Ebert Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226403984, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

No film critic has ever been as influential – or as beloved – as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and...

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Political Science

Business & Economics

African Successes Sustainable Growth

Edwards Sebastian, Johnson Simon, Weil David N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226315553, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2016
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 114 line drawings, 81 tables

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as fa...

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Political Science

Business & Economics

African Successes Modernization and Development

Edwards Sebastian, Johnson Simon, Weil David N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226315720, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2016
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 line drawings, 99 tables

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as fa...

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