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America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Jewish Studies

Summoned Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood

Tavory Iddo

ISBN: PB: 9780226322056, ISBN: HB: 9780226321868, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 maps

On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work "Jewish jobs" – teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabb...

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Music

General

Music and Capitalism A History of the Present

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311975, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical – they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasiv...

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Philosophy

Jewish Studies

Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy

Trawny Peter, Mitchell Andrew J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226303734, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 2014, the first three volumes of Heidegger's "Black Notebooks" – the personal and philosophical notebooks that he kept during the war years – were published in Germany. These notebooks provide the first textual evidence of anti-Semitism in Heidegg...

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General

Culture Studies

Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display

Tyburczy Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226315249, ISBN: HB: 9780226315102, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

All museums are sex museums. In "Sex Museums", Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality – particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed – and asks what role museums have played in using disp...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Corn Wolf

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226310855, ISBN: HB: 9780226310718, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones, 16 line drawings

Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, "The Corn Wolf" pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has charact...

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Evolution

Body by Darwin How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine

Taylor Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780226059884, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions – whether it's a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and...

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America

Education

More than Lore Reminiscences of Marion Talbot

Talbot Marion

ISBN: HB: 9780226316703, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table

The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms". In a time when...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 44 A Review of Research

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226337579, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Volume 44 of "Crime and Justice" is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who need to know about the latest advances in knowledge concerning crime, its causes, and its control. Contents: include Robert D. Crutchfield on the...

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America

Political Science

Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...

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