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Photography

Landscapes Photographs 1926-1946

Sander August

ISBN: HB: 9780226399461, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
112 pp., 31.7x26.7 cm, 59 black&white photographs, 1 map

In 1975, German readers were introduced to the "Rheinlandschaften", a collection of stunning images of the Rhineland captured in the first half of the twentieth century by photographer August Sander (1876-1964). This fresh edition, now in English, br...

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Education

Have a Little Faith Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

Justice Benjamin, Macleod Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226400457, ISBN: HB: 9780226400310, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It isn't just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heate...

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Anthropology

Music

Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills

Narayan Kirin

ISBN: PB: 9780226407562, ISBN: HB: 9780226407425, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a fo...

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Business & Economics

Negotiated Reform The Multilevel Governance of Financial Regulation

Mayntz Renate

ISBN: PB: 9783593505510, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
193 pp., 21.4x14 cm, 9 tables

Multilevel structures are becoming increasingly characteristic of the world in which we live. This book is a unique study of policy making in a multilevel political system extending from the national to the international level. Taking as its subject...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

Lee Benjamin, Martin Randy

ISBN: PB: 9780226392837, ISBN: HB: 9780226392660, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 6 line drawings

Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book...

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Chemistry

Biography & Memoires

Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

Hemmungs Wirten Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones

In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...

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Anthropology

Invention of Culture

Wagner Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226423289, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's "The Invention of Culture", originally published in 1975, is one. Wagne...

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Political Science

Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse

Leifeld Philip

ISBN: PB: 9783593505701, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 100 tables

How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods...

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Education

Connecting in College How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success

McCabe Janice M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409528, ISBN: HB: 9780226409498, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 11 tables

We all know that good study habits, supportive parents, and engaged instructors are all keys to getting good grades in college. But as Janice M. McCabe shows in this illuminating study, there is one crucial factor determining a student's academic suc...

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Business & Economics

Selling Power Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940

Neufeld John L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226399638, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 26 line drawings, 9 tables

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison'...

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