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America

Sounds of Capitalism Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226151625, ISBN: HB: 9780226791159, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 24 halftones

From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercial...

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General

Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life

Thornton Arland

ISBN: PB: 9780226104461, ISBN: HB: 9780226798608, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps

European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm – one that has affecte...

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Biography & Memoires

World

Love and Freedom Three Lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India

Tendulkar Dhaul Laxmi

ISBN: PB: 9789381017661, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 30 halftones

In the early 1930s, Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. There, Ayii, eventually became well-known journalist in Berlin and he met and fell in love with the reno...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Afterlife of Piet Mondrian

Troy Nancy J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226008691, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
316 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 65 halftones

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our underst...

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Reference

Education

Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction

Tyler Ralph W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086507, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a...

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Evolution

Relentless Evolution

Thompson John N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226018751, ISBN: HB: 9780226018614, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 64 halftones, 25 line illus.

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a f...

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Ecology

Rapid Biological Assessment of the Mont Panie Range and Roches de la Ouaieme, North Province, New Caledonia

Tron Francois, Franquet Romain, Larsen Trond H., Cassan Jean-Jerome

ISBN: PB: 9781934151549, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, April 2013
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 40 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from rapid biological assessments around Mont Panie, the tallest mountain in New Caledonia, southwest Pacific. The purpose of the survey was to gather baseline data on biodiversity, analyze local climate trends, asse...

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Music

Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru

Tucker Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226923963, ISBN: HB: 9780226923956, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 18 line illus.

Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, "Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars" is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popula...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 41 Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226009674, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United St...

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Chinese

Written on Bamboo and Silk The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition

Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin

ISBN: PB: 9780226814162, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 26 halftones, 4 line illus.

Paleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this now-classic paleographic study of China, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien traces the developme...

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