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America

Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Fernandez Lilia

ISBN: PB: 9780226212845, ISBN: HB: 9780226244259, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 maps, 13 tables, 18 halftones

Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s an...

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Philosophy

Formal Methods and Empirical Practices Conversations with Patrick Suppes

Ferrario Roberta, Schiaffonati Viola

ISBN: PB: 9781575866529, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2014
151 pp., 23x15 cm

The philosopher Patrick Suppes has developed a unique and influential approach to studying the foundations of science – he combines an understanding of the main principles of scientific theories in axiomatic terms and formal models with a hands-on ap...

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Business & Economics

Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective

White Eugene N., Snowden Kenneth, Fishback Price

ISBN: HB: 9780226073842, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 50 tables

The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and...

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Jewish Studies

Becoming Israeli National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

Helman Anat

ISBN: PB: 9781611685572, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens – natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers – coped wi...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

Friling Tuvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611685879, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the...

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Cartoon Art

Comics and Media A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry"

Chute Hillary L., Jagoda Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226208466, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 97 colour plates, 110 halftones

The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success".Comics and Media" reflects that, bringing together an amazing array of contributors, creators and critics alike, to discuss the stat...

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Fiction

Caribou Journey

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230965, ISBN: HB: 9781602230972, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour illus.

An imposing line of caribou stretches for miles across the frozen tundra of Alaska. The sound of clicking hooves echoes through the air as the herd follows its centuries-old migration route. With their thick coats and their padded, shovel-like hooves...

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Earth Sciences

History

Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2013

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226158730, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
366 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions".The Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront of...

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Genetics

General

Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Panofsky Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...

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