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Bilingual Courtroom Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process (Second Edition)

Berk-Seligson Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226329161, ISBN: HB: 9780226329338, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

Susan Berk-Seligson's groundbreaking book draws on more than one hundred hours of audio recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state, and municipal courts – along with a number of psycholinguistic experiments involving mock juror...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France

McCracken Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226458922, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet – whether as friends or foes – issues of mastery and submission are often at stake".In the Skin of a Beast" shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting lar...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration

Bano Samia

ISBN: PB: 9781512600353, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law – such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation – have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of ob...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Critical Norths Space, Nature, Theory

Ray Sarah Jaquette, Maier Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781602233195, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...

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Political Science

Neither Liberal nor Conservative Ideological Innocence in the American Public

Kinder Donald R., Kalmoe Nathan P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226452456, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 41 tables

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and governmen...

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Contemporary Art

William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

Taylor Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226791203, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 71 colour plates, 6 halftones

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he sta...

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Philosophy

Law

Artistic License The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation

Hudson Hick Darren

ISBN: PB: 9780226460246, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The art scene today is one of appropriation – of remixing, reusing, and recombining the works of other artists. From the musical mash-ups of Girl Talk to the pop-culture borrowings of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, it's clear that the artistic landscap...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Capacity to Work at Older Ages

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226442877, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2017
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 188 line drawings, 127 tables

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between...

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Music

Guitar Makers The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America

Dudley Kathryn Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226478678, ISBN: HB: 9780226095387, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 3 line drawings

It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk – the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon....

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General

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Hyra Derek S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226449531, ISBN: HB: 9780226449364, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 6 line drawings, 17 tables

For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck...

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