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Education

"So What Are You Going to Do with That?" Finding Careers Outside Academia (Third Edition)

Basalla Susan, Debelius Maggie

ISBN: PB: 9780226200408, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student lo...

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Political Science

Politics of Information Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

Baumgartner Frank R., Jones Bryan D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226198125, ISBN: HB: 9780226198095, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 figures, 8 tables

How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search". If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need...

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Contemporary Art

Pope. L Showing Up to Withhold

ISBN: HB: 9780226200064, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
208 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates

Iconoclast and artist Pope. L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and political...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Rhetorics History, Theory, Practice

Bernard-Donals Michael, Fernheimer Janice W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611686401, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors' definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance...

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Photography

Diary/Landscape

Welling James

ISBN: HB: 9780226204123, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
160 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 126 halftones

For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the material and conceptual possibilities of photography".Diary/Landscape" – the first mature body of work by this important contemporary artist – set the framework for his subsequent invest...

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Buddhism

Rescued from the Nation Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World

Kemper Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226199078, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drov...

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General

Philosophy

Walls Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Oles Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226199245, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pe...

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Sport

Selling the Yellow Jersey The Tour de France in the Global Era

Reed Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780226206530, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 3 tables

Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America early last year when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during the seven Tour de France races he won. But the foreign cycling world, which always viewed Armstrong wi...

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History

Limits of Matter Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment

Fors Hjalmar

ISBN: HB: 9780226194998, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, December 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic...

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