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Biography & Memoires

Playing in Time Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories

Rotella Carlo

ISBN: HB: 9780226729091, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm

From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns – Carlo Rotella's "Playing in Time" delivers good stories full of vivid characters, all told with the unique voice and humor that have...

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Middle East

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

Bowersock G. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683219, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2012
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the gro...

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Political Science

Birth of Hegemony Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks

Sobel Andrew C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226767604, ISBN: HB: 9780226767598, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 1 line illus.

With American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge – and are able to create conditions for lasting stability – is of utmost importance in international relations. The generally accepted wis...

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Political Science

Law

Electing Judges The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy

Gibson James L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226291086, ISBN: HB: 9780226291079, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 1 halftone, 15 line illus.

In "Electing Judges", leading judicial politics scholar James L. Gibson responds tothe growing chorus of critics who fear that the politics of running for office undermine judicial independence and even the rule of law. While many people have opinion...

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Ecology

Nature All Around Us A Guide to Urban Ecology

Beisner Beatrix, Messier Christian, Giraldeau Luc-Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226922751, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 78 line illus.

It's easy to stand in awe of a city's impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, a...

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Philosophy

Soul of the Greeks An Inquiry

Davis Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004495, ISBN: HB: 9780226137964, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm

The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal,...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Summer 2012, Issue 30

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Smith Stephanie, Kreuger Anders

ISBN: PB: 9781846380891, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
150 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Touching Encounters Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting

Walby Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780226870069, ISBN: HB: 9780226870052, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
232 pp., 23x15 cm

Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved i...

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Poetry

Bewilderment New Poems and Translations

Ferry David

ISBN: PB: 9780226244884, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
128 pp., 23x15 cm

To read David Ferry's "Bewilderment" is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath awa...

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America

Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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