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Education

Write Your Way In Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay

Toor Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226383897, ISBN: HB: 9780226383750, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
164 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It's even worse when it feels like your whole future – or at least where you'll spend the next four years in college – is on the line. It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off...

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Philosophy

Sport

I in Team Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity

Tarver Erin C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226470139, ISBN: HB: 9780226469935, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables

There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn't the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn't the grunts or even the stadium music. It's the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports f...

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America

Power without Victory Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment

Throntveit Trygve

ISBN: PB: 9780226459905, ISBN: HB: 9780226459875, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a na??ve idealist or cynical imperialist abroad. Historians' harsh judgments of Wilson are understandable. He won two electio...

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Contemporary Art

William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

Taylor Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226791203, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 71 colour plates, 6 halftones

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he sta...

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Music

Music in the World Selected Essays

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226442396, ISBN: HB: 9780226442259, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 4 tables

In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism".Music in the World" is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings – essays concerned with questions about music in capitalist c...

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Public Health

Bodies in Flux Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

Teston Christa

ISBN: PB: 9780226450667, ISBN: HB: 9780226450520, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 11 line drawings, 16 tables

Medical professionals, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of medical "certainty" regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of disease states. Constructing certainty requires reductions and deductions. It requires...

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Architecture

American Imperial Pastoral The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines

Tinio McKenna Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226417769, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "Made No Little Plans", set off for the Philippines, the new US colonial acquisition. Charged with designing environments for the occupation government, Burnha...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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Europe

Corporate Commonwealth Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651

Turner Henry S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226363356, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Corporate Commonwealth" traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance period and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fi...

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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

Telo Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226309699, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn i...

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