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Public Health

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Kaye Abraham Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226623702, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country".Mama Might Be Better Off D...

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Philosophy

Tomorrow the Manifold Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035800999, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2019
256 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

This volume tracks the crucial role of Reiner Schurmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991. Drawing on Foucault's highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schurmann traces the status of identity and dif...

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Linguistics

Battle in the Mind Fields

Goldsmith John A., Laks Bernard

ISBN: HB: 9780226550800, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

"We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side". Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard La...

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Spanish

Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings

Kratochvilova Dana

ISBN: PB: 9788024638690, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! With a focus on Spanish modality, this book presents Bohumil Zavadil's theoretical approach – the first such presentation in English – to this category and, consequently, analyzes its poss...

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Poetry

Bower

Voisine Connie

ISBN: PB: 9780226613789, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? "The Bower" engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Ireland, with her young daughter...

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America

Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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General

America

Browning of the New South

Jones Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226600987, ISBN: HB: 9780226600840, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 table

Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to pl...

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Education

Navigating Tenure and Beyond A Guide for Early Career Faculty

Christopher Sundar A.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970437, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2019
168 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 10 line drawings

This guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situat...

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Music

Let's Make a Better World Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp

Sapp Jane, Cohen Cynthia

ISBN: PB: 9781512603552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jane Sapp is a nationally admired cultural worker, musician, educator, and activist whose approach to social transformation is rooted in African American musical traditions and made available here as a resource for communities around the world. Jane...

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General

No Vacancy Homeless Women in Paradise

Reid Michael E.

ISBN: PB: 9781940939711, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
186 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Homelessness touches every corner of our country, even the most prosperous ones. In "No Vacancy: Homeless Women in Paradise", Michael E. Reid tells the story of more than five hundred women living without shelter in the affluent sea-side communities...

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