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Windows into the Soul Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology

Marx Gary T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285917, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 8 tables

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers – and the merely curious – to see. In "Windows into the Soul", Gary T. Marx, a central figure in t...

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Processual Sociology

Abbott Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226336626, ISBN: HB: 9780226336596, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a "processual" ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing – making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. H...

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Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

Elshakry Marwa

ISBN: PB: 9780226378732, ISBN: HB: 9780226001302, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In "Reading Darwin in Arabic", Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and readi...

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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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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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Shared Future Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy

Wood Richard L., Fulton Brad R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226306025, ISBN: HB: 9780226305974, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 25 line drawings

Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In "A...

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Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...

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Getting Your Way Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226394770, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Getting other people to do what we want is a useful skill for anyone. Whether you're seeking a job, negotiating a deal, or angling for that big promotion, you're engaged in strategic thought and action. In such moments, you imagine what might be goin...

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Confucius Institutes Academic Malware

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780984201082, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2015
64 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

In recent years, "Confucius Institutes" have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and...

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