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Contemporary Art

America

Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 33

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645865, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume presents five new studies on taxation and government transfer programs. Alexander Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff, Stephen Ross, and Sergio Villar Vallenas show how asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts, which are currently...

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Fiction

Not Dead Yet and Other Stories

Moore Hadley

ISBN: PB: 9781938769412, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
216 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm

"Not Dead Yet" studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore's debut collection of short stories presents a contemporary set of narra...

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Anthropology

Gender Studies

Fada Boredom and Belonging in Niger

Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226624341, ISBN: HB: 9780226624204, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men bored and id...

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Political Science

Conservative Innovators How States Are Challenging Federal Power

Merriman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780226620312, ISBN: HB: 9780226620282, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 8 tables

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends a great deal on state cooperation, and not all state officials h...

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Poetry

water / tongue

mai c. doan

ISBN: PB: 9781632430656, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Grappling with the shock of her grandmother's suicide, mai c. doan undertook a writing project that might give voice to her loss as well as to grapple with memory, and the challenge of articulation and of documentation, in all of their contradictions...

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Ecology

Wild Sea A History of the Southern Ocean

McCann Joy

ISBN: HB: 9780226622385, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 maps

"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessi...

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Reference

Business & Economics

Economical Writing Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose (Third Edition)

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226448077, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 3 halftones

Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic...

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Literary Criticism

Polonica

Crises of the Sentence

Mieszkowski Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780226617190, ISBN: HB: 9780226617053, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the wor...

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Poetry

Ransom Street

Millikin Claire

ISBN: PB: 9781940939902, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Ransom Street" is Claire Millikin's third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for t...

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