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Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

Wajcman Judy

ISBN: PB: 9780226380841, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster...

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History of Art

Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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Philosophy

Philosophy Scare The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War

McCumber John

ISBN: HB: 9780226396385, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber sh...

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America

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Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eightieth Edition, 2015-2016

Kaye Elizabeth A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261935, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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America

From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America

Gordon Leah N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419411, ISBN: HB: 9780226238449, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intell...

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Poetry

White Islands / Las Islas Blancas

Agosin Marjorie, Nanfito Jacqueline, Held Michal

ISBN: PB: 9780983322092, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x13.3 cm

"I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean". So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jew...

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America

Chicago's Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City

Seligman Amanda I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226385853, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? F...

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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Assassin of Youth A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs

Chasin Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780226276977, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States' little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing ra...

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Poetry

Life Pig

Shapiro Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226404172, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm

From "Let Me Hear You": Outside is inside now The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into...

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