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Anthropology

Critical Norths Space, Nature, Theory

Ray Sarah Jaquette, Maier Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781602233195, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...

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Political Science

More Than a Feeling Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress

Ramey Adam J., Klingler Jonathan D., Hollibaugh Jr. Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226455983, ISBN: HB: 9780226455846, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 23 tables

Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy preferences, often argue fiercely about how best to atta...

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General

"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York

Reick Philipp

ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2017
237 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...

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Evolution

Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

Richards Evelleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226436906, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 48 halftones

Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because i...

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America

Music

Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

Roberts Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...

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Sport

Bittersweet Science Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside

Rotella Carlo, Ezra Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226346205, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport – and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, r...

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History

Life on Ice A History of New Uses for Cold Blood

Radin Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226417318, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were...

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Political Science

Ancient World

Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

Remer Gary A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439167, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In "Ethics and the Orator", Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder....

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Criminology

Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...

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Philosophy

German Idealism as Constructivism

Rockmore Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226349909, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"German Idealism as Constructivism" is the culmination of many years of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore – it is his definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between proponents of representationalism and those of con...

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