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Winter Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780226249629, ISBN: HB: 9780226249599, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With "Issues in Law and Eco...

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Anthropology

Invention of Culture

Wagner Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226423289, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's "The Invention of Culture", originally published in 1975, is one. Wagne...

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Music

Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell'Arte

Wilbourne Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780226401577, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 37 line drawings, 4 tables

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages o...

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Education

Diversity Bargain And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

Warikoo Natasha K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226400143, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene – if at all – to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter...

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General

Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

Wajcman Judy

ISBN: PB: 9780226380841, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Stormwater A Resource for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226365008, ISBN: HB: 9780226364957, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 277 halftones

As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm – from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston – come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In "Stormwater", William G. Wilson brings us t...

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Evolution

Adaptation in Metapopulations How Interaction Changes Evolution

Wade Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226129730, ISBN: HB: 9780226129563, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 27 line drawings, 11 tables

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in ver...

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Music

Man Verdi

Walker Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780226871325, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 musical example

In this classic biography of composer Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Walker reveals Verdi the man through his connections with the individuals who knew him best".Walker focuses on some of the more significant people in Verdi's life and carefully scrutinizes h...

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Architecture

World

Practicing Utopia An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

Wakeman Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780226346038, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones

The typical town springs up around a natural resource – a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor – or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns", which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are of...

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Literary Criticism

Rootedness The Ramifications of a Metaphor

Wampole Christy

ISBN: HB: 9780226317656, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth – and nations – from which they came. In "Rootedness", Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of...

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