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Public Health

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226146096, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2014
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 figures, 128 tables

The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs' overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Hard-Core Romance "Fifty Shades of Grey", Best-Sellers, and Society

Illouz Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226153698, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
104 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From its beginnings in "Twilight" fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million...

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Literary Criticism

Birth of Theory

Cole Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226135427, ISBN: HB: 9780226135397, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory – Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole's "The Birth of Theory" presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's d...

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Military

D-Day Through French Eyes Normandy 1944

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780226136998, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings

"Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges". Silent parachutes dotting the night sky – that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasio...

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Music

Culture Studies

Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960

Fry Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings

The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...

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America

Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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Contemporary Art

Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break III

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316376, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2014
72 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 25 colour plates, 10 halftones

"Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III" is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue collar workers of the twenty-fi...

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Political Science

Good Project Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason

Krause Monika

ISBN: PB: 9780226131368, ISBN: HB: 9780226131221, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 2 tables

NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsu...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Other

Anthropology

Spirited Things The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226122762, ISBN: HB: 9780226122625, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The word "possession" is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. In "Spirited Things", Paul Christopher Jo...

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