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Law

Reason in Law Ninth Edition

Carter Lief H., Burke Thomas F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226328188, ISBN: HB: 9780226328041, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Over the nearly four decades it has been in print, "Reason in Law" has established itself as the place to start for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. This ninth edition brings the book's analyses and examples up...

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Anthropology

Siege of the Spirits Community and Polity in Bangkok

Herzfeld Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226331614, ISBN: HB: 9780226331584, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 map

What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story o...

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Fiction

Origins

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783037345979, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
272 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

"Born too late to see the war and too early to forget it". So writes Reiner Schurmann in "Origins", a startlingly personal account of life as a young man from postwar Germany in the 1960s. Schurmann's semi-autobiographical protagonist is incapable of...

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Contemporary Art

Arthur Dove Always Connect

DeLue Rachael Z.

ISBN: HB: 9780226142197, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
384 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 58 colour plates, 87 halftones

Arthur Dove, often credited as America's first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the north shore of Long Island. But his interests did not stop with nature. C...

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General

Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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Fiction

Last Hurrah A Novel

O'Connor

ISBN: PB: 9780226321417, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
392 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"We're living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I'm not altogether sure you're fully attuned to it". So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington – a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents o...

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Ancient World

Variety The Life of a Roman Concept

Fitzgerald William

ISBN: HB: 9780226299495, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature an...

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Children's Books

Vikram and the Vampire

Sharma Natasha

ISBN: PB: 9789384757649, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2016
124 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 18 halftones

King Vikram has a devil of a dilemma! In order to gain power and wealth beyond his wildest dreams, he must deliver a corpse to the sorcerer Shaitanish. The only problem with this simple task is that this particular corpse is home to Betal – an impish...

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Cartography

Cartographic Japan A History in Maps

Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary

ISBN: HB: 9780226073057, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 1 table

Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore o...

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Music

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

Bohlman Philip V., Plastino Goffredo

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226236032, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226158082, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 11 line drawings

Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jaz...

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