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Constellations of Inequality Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil

Mitchell Sean T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226499260, ISBN: HB: 9780226499123, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 map

In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with di...

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Business & Economics

America

Finance in America An Unfinished Story

Brine Kevin R., Poovey Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226502182, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance – and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understa...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

Stories of Capitalism Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

Leins Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226523422, ISBN: HB: 9780226523392, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 line drawings, 5 tables

The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to for...

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Literary Criticism

Telling It Like It Wasn't The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

Gallagher Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780226512419, ISBN: HB: 9780226512389, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives a...

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History

Making Time Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

Frumer Yulia

ISBN: HB: 9780226516448, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything – it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In "Making Time", Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in...

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Jewish Studies

Law

Jewish Legal Theories Writings on State, Religion, and Morality

Batnitzky Leora, Brafman Yonatan

ISBN: PB: 9781584657446, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal...

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Philosophy

Other

Powers of Distinction On Religion and Modernity

Levene Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226507538, ISBN: HB: 9780226507361, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this major new work, philosopher of religion Nancy Levene examines the elemental character of religion and modernity. Deep in their operating systems, she argues, are dualisms of opposition and identity that cannot be reconciled with the forms of...

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Philosophy

Creatively Undecided Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

Fisch Menachem

ISBN: PB: 9780226514512, ISBN: HB: 9780226514482, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions. By turning our attention...

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Education

Color of Mind Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice

Darby Derrick, Rury John L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226525358, ISBN: HB: 9780226525211, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 tables

American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In "The Color of Mind", Derrick Darby an...

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