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Milton Friedman and Economic Debate in the United States, 1932–1972, Volume 2

Nelson Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780226684895, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
640 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 1 table

Milton Friedman is widely recognized as one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. Yet no previous study has distilled Friedman's vast body of writings into an authoritative account of his research, his policy views, and his int...

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Poetry

Circle / Square

McLemore T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9781938769665, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2020
32 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Throughout Circle / Square, T. J. McLemore renders the language of physics and theoretical science into poetry to illuminate the mysterious ways we experience reality. Exploring the complex and at-times dense world of scientific language, MeLemore sp...

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Ecology

Climate in Motion Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226398822, ISBN: PB: 9780226752334, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 45 halftones

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary".Climate in Motion" shows that this multiscalar, multicausa...

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Earth Sciences

Coast to Explore Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661810, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
338 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 colour plates

Coasts have always enchanted us with their wild beauty. Coast to Explore offers an accessible guide to what we see when we look at a coastline: the wave-cut rock cliffs, sea caves, and sea stacks, as well as sand and gravel beaches and coastal dunes....

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Political Science

Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present

Ragusa Jordan M., Birkhead Nathaniel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables

After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...

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Philosophy

Critique The Stakes of Form

Khatib Sami

ISBN: PB: 9783035802405, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophic...

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Philosophy

Critique and the Digital

Horl Erich, Pinkrah Nelly Y., Warnsholdt Lotte

ISBN: PB: 9783035802429, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Erich Horl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not...

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Education

Digital Divisions How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era

Rafalow Matthew H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226726694, ISBN: HB: 9780226726557, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 6 tables

In the digital age, schools are a central part of a nationwide effort to make access to technology more equitable, so that all young people, regardless of identity or background, have the opportunity to engage with the technologies that are essential...

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Law

Patents for Power Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology

Farley Robert M., Isaacs Davida H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226716527, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law – and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and issues of copyright – has never been greater. But as Robert M. Farley and D...

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Political Science

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Howell William G., Moe Terry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226763170, ISBN: HB: 9780226728797, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-gove...

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