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Political Science

Justice Is an Option A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century

Meister Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226734484, ISBN: HB: 9780226702889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared,...

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Music

Ambient Sufism Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form

Jankowsky Richard C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723471, ISBN: HB: 9780226723334, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 20 musical examples, 9 tables

Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undo...

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Biography & Memoires

Lady Ranelagh The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister

DiMeo Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780226731605, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patro...

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Fiction

Lamentation for 77,297 Victims

Weil Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024645339, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Smoke from nearby factories shrouds a countryside as flat as a table, a countryside stretching off to infinity. Covering it are the ashes of millions of dead. Scattered throughout are fin...

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Jewish Studies

Media Studies

Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

Reitter Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226754574, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which b...

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Biography & Memoires

Travel

Wanderer

Garrison Carole J.

ISBN: PB: 9781734618112, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2020
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 116 halftones

In The Wanderer, Carole J. Garrison fulfills her bucket list by meeting with the people who fascinate her and the places that lead her to them. Through her journeys, she explores the unexpected human connections that transform the experience of trave...

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Literary Criticism

Leavetakings Essays

Cook Corinna

ISBN: PB: 9781602234246, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not onl...

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Pharmacy

White Market Drugs Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America

Herzberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226731889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 4 line drawings

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fue...

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Anthropology

Wild Thought A New Translation of "La Pensee sauvage"

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226413082, ISBN: HB: 9780226208015, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 19 line drawings

Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned...

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Mammals

Law

Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights

Bradshaw Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...

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