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America

After Redlining The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

Marchiel Rebecca K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226723648, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding an...

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Law

What's Legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights

Mattutat Liza, Nigro Roberto, Schiel Nadine, Stubenrauch Heiko

ISBN: PB: 9783035802436, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the othe...

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Reference

Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching

McGlynn Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226542362, ISBN: HB: 9780226542225, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Higher education is a strange beast. Teaching is a critical skill for scientists in academia, yet one that is barely touched upon in their professional training – despite being a substantial part of their career. This book is a practical guide for an...

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Middle East

Biography & Memoires

Early Mubarak Years 1982-1989 The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume III

Mahfouz Naguib

ISBN: HB: 9781909942110, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, July 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In these essays Naguib Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament, and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after Honsi Mubarak became President in 1981.

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Judaism

Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World

Mayse Ariel, Berrin Shonkoff Sam, Mayse Ariel Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 27

Mungan Murat C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226709857, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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America

Province of Affliction Illness and the Making of Early New England

Mutschler Ben

ISBN: HB: 9780226714424, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was especially pressing in colonial America, where episodic bouts of sickness were pervasive, chronic ails common, and epidemics...

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Jewish Studies

American Jewish Thought Since 1934 Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief

Marmur Michael, Ellenson David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580149, ISBN: HB: 9781684580132, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? This anthology considers these questions and offers a look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and i...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 34

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226708119, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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America

Urban Lowlands A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning

Moga Steven T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226710532, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

In "Urban Lowlands", Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the pover...

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