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America

Tolerant Populists, Second Edition Kansas Populism and Nativism

Nugent Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226054087, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the or...

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Business & Economics

Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

Fishback Price V., Rose Jonathan, Snowden Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780226082448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 10 tables

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling...

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History of Art

Courbet Mapping Realism

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850218, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2013
130 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 35 colour plates, 25 halftones

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French artist whose work heralded the realist movement of the nineteenth century and his paintings have had a profound influence on other artists from around the world, including Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler,...

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Europe

Military

In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949

Olick Jeffrey K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103341, ISBN: HB: 9780226626383, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Soci...

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Anthropology

Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja From Aluk Todolo to "New" Religions

Budiman Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9788024622286, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
170 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 40 halftones, 3 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Sa'dan Toraja are an ethnic group who live primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This rigorous academic study by noted expert Michaela Budiman examines the deep cultural shif...

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Evolution

Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

Richards Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226058931, ISBN: HB: 9780226058764, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 7 line drawings

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values...

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Evolution

Long and the Short of It The Science of Life Span and Aging

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226757896, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans – and that variation is nothing compared to what's found in other animal an...

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Political Science

Current Affairs

Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Mitchell Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226087313, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tr...

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Gender Studies

Blind to Sameness Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies

Friedman Asia

ISBN: PB: 9780226023632, ISBN: HB: 9780226023465, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to...

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Fiction

Madness of Waiting

Hadi Ruswa Muhammad

ISBN: HB: 9789381017708, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel, "Umrao Jaan Ada", created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalized account of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned Lucknow courtesan and poetess of the same name. Considered by many...

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