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Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880

Sawyer Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226544465, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democrati...

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Dogs

Secrets of the Snout The Dog's Incredible Nose

Rosell Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226536361, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Dogs and humans have worked side by side for thousands of years, and over the millennia we've come to depend upon our pooches as hunters, protectors, and faithful companions. But when it comes to the extraordinary quality of man's best friend which w...

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History

Epochs of Nature

Leclerc Georges-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226395432, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's "The Epochs of Nature", originally published as "Les Epoques de la Nature" in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of R...

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Philosophy

Serious Larks The Philosophy of Ted Cohen

Cohen Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780226511269, ISBN: HB: 9780226511122, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of Life

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226540917, ISBN: HB: 9780226266015, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters – these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard...

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America

Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States

LaChance Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...

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Cartography

How to Lie with Maps Third Edition

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226435923, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones

An instant classic when first published in 1991, "How to Lie with Maps" revealed how the choices mapmakers make – consciously or unconsciously – mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. Th...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Filled with the Spirit Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition

Lewin Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226537207, ISBN: HB: 9780226537177, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at it...

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Law

Flunking Democracy Schools, Courts, and Civic Participation

Rebell Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226549811, ISBN: HB: 9780226549781, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance...

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Political Science

State Constitutional Politics Governing by Amendment in the American States

Dinan John

ISBN: PB: 9780226532813, ISBN: HB: 9780226532783, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a re...

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