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Education

Colouring Books for Adults

Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book

Schumacher Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780226467047, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 line drawings

To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes... Who wouldn't envy that life? But those in the t...

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Biography & Memoires

Pasolini Requiem Second Edition

Schwartz Barth David

ISBN: PB: 9780226335025, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
656 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post-World War II era. An astonishing polymath – poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director – he exerted profound i...

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Poetry

Little Kisses

Schwartz Lloyd

ISBN: PB: 9780226458274, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
78 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Called "the master of the poetic one-liner" by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignan...

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Jewish Studies

Law

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court From Brandeis to Kagan

Dalin David G.

ISBN: HB: 9781611682380, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court" examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Gold...

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Education

Ambitious Elementary School Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality

McGhee Hassrick Elizabeth, Raudenbush Stephen W., Rosen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226456652, ISBN: HB: 9780226456515, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 13 tables

The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequaliti...

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General

Varieties of Social Imagination

Celarent Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226433967, ISBN: HB: 9780226433820, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In July 2009, the "American Journal of Sociology" (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provi...

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Political Science

More Than a Feeling Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress

Ramey Adam J., Klingler Jonathan D., Hollibaugh Jr. Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226455983, ISBN: HB: 9780226455846, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 23 tables

Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy preferences, often argue fiercely about how best to atta...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2016 Volume 17

Greenstein Shane M., Lerner Joshua, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226489858, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2017
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's "Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the int...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Evolving God A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion (Expanded Edition)

King Barbara J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226360898, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains – a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, f...

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General

"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York

Reick Philipp

ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2017
237 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...

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