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History

Beyond the Laboratory Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America

Kuznick Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676203, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
374 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The debate over scientists' social responsibility is a topic of great controversy today. Peter J. Kuznick here traces the origin of that debate to the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and...

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Philosophy

How We Became Our Data A Genealogy of the Informational Person

Koopman Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226626581, ISBN: HB: 9780226626444, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who...

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Poetry

Wounds Fragments Derelict

Kelly Carlos Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781940939926, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Wounds Fragments Derelict" is Carlos Gabriel Kelly's debut poetry collection. These poems comprise a narrative of love and loss. Throughout the collection, Kelly weaves poetic fragments into a narrative expressing the torment of a relationship that...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Dream of the Water Children Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific

Kakinami Cloyd Fredrick D.

ISBN: PB: 9781940939285, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
476 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm

Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of "Dream of the Water Children", finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a cultural drifter, as well. I...

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Women Studies

Indian Feminisms Individual and Collective Journeys

Kathuria Poonam, Bhaiya Abha

ISBN: HB: 9789385932021, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only for the essential work they do but for the successes they've had. This collection of essays, written by well-known activ...

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Psychology

Redefining Success in America A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development

Kaufman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226550152, ISBN: HB: 9780226550015, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 32 tables

Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream – and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered...

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Public Health

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Kaye Abraham Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226623702, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country".Mama Might Be Better Off D...

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Philosophy

How Should We Live? A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality

Kekes John

ISBN: PB: 9780226639079, ISBN: HB: 9780226155654, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years...

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Philosophy

Human Predicaments And What to Do about Them

Kekes John

ISBN: PB: 9780226638911, ISBN: HB: 9780226359458, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new...

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History

Inside Science Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science

Kohler Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226617985, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats".Inside Science" is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of...

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