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Law
Dignity of Commerce Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law
Oman Nathan B.
ISBN: HB: 9780226415529, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transacti...
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Gay and Lesbian Studies
Boystown Sex and Community in Chicago
Orne Jason
ISBN: PB: 9780226413396, ISBN: HB: 9780226413259, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing
From neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this tr...
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Asia
Learning from Shenzhen China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
O'Donnell Mary Ann, Wong Winnie, Bach Jonathan
ISBN: PB: 9780226401126, ISBN: HB: 9780226401096, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transform...
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Europe
Sins of the Fathers Germany, Memory, Method
Olick Jeffrey K.
ISBN: HB: 9780226386492, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 2 tables
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over – the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed...
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Mammals
Elephant Don The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse
O'Connell Caitlin
ISBN: PB: 9780226380056, ISBN: HB: 9780226106113, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
Meet Greg. He's a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He's been the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of friends – including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking...
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America
Blood Runs Green The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
O'Brien Gillian
ISBN: PB: 9780226379999, ISBN: HB: 9780226248950, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and...
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Fiction
Last Hurrah A Novel
O'Connor
ISBN: PB: 9780226321417, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
392 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"We're living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I'm not altogether sure you're fully attuned to it". So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington – a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents o...
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Literary Criticism
Literature Incorporated The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
O'Brien John
ISBN: HB: 9780226291123, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'...
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America
Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11
O'Gorman Ned
ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings
Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...
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Children's Books
Stubborn Gal The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer
O'Neill Dan
ISBN: HB: 9781602232723, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
"Stubborn Gal" is the true story of a sixty-mile sled dog race and a young woman determined, if not exactly qualified, to run it. A grandfather tells his granddaughter about the tenacious Sarah and her adventure with sled dogs. The older Sarah, bored...
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