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Archaeology & Paleontology

Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History

Troile Larsen Mogens, Hertel Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9788763543873, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, March 2019
224 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 2 colour plates, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 maps

Globalization and cheaper travel have led to a rapid increase in cross-cultural encounters worldwide – which makes understanding problems of conflict, prejudice, interaction, and adaptation ever more important. Fortunately, we have a powerful histori...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Catastrophizing Materialism and the Making of Disaster

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226612218, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 colour plates, 7 halftones

When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imaginat...

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Fiction

Clone

Sarukkai Chabria Priya

ISBN: HB: 9789385932434, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, "The Clone" inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves the tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against...

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Public Health

Community Health Equity A Chicago Reader

De Maio Fernando, Shah Raj C., Mazzeo John, Ansell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226614625, ISBN: HB: 9780226614595, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones, 55 tables

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity".Community Health Equity" assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago's structural socioecono...

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Ancient World

Conquest of Ruins The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome

Hell Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226588193, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in "The Conquest of Ruins", what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginat...

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America

Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America

Konda Thomas Milan

ISBN: HB: 9780226585765, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion –...

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Law

Corporate Contract in Changing Times Is the Law Keeping Up?

Davidoff Solomon Steven, Thomas Randall Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9780226599403, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Over the past few decades, significant changes have occurred across capital markets. Shareholder activists have become more prominent, institutional investors have begun to wield more power, and intermediaries like investment advisory firms have grea...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 48 American Sentencing

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226644912, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"American Sentencing" surveys what is known about the hottest topic in American criminal law reform. Massive efforts are underway to make sentencing more just and sentences more effective, and to reduce the use of imprisonment. The writers are the le...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

Creativity on Demand The Dilemmas of Innovation in an Accelerated Age

Wilf Eitan Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226606972, ISBN: HB: 9780226606835, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation – and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consulting generates courses, workshops, books, and conferences that all claim to hold the secrets of succes...

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Political Science

Creating Political Presence The New Politics of Democratic Representation

Castiglione Dario, Pollak Johannes

ISBN: PB: 9780226588537, ISBN: HB: 9780226588360, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate. Should elected representatives express the views of the majority, or do they have the discretion to interpret their constituents' interests? How can representativ...

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