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Evolution

Dinner with Darwin Food, Drink, and Evolution

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226760094, ISBN: HB: 9780226245393, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 6 line drawings

What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to no...

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Jewish Studies

Don Isaac Abravanel An Intellectual Biography

Cohen-Skalli Cedric

ISBN: HB: 9781684580231, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourag...

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America

Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Baynton Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...

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Poetry

Disturbing the Light

Green Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780887486609, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past...

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General

Dynastic Imagination Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Daub Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9780226737874, ISBN: HB: 9780226737737, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mec...

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Cartography

Dislocating the Orient British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

Foliard Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226755724, ISBN: HB: 9780226451336, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 45 halftones, 2 line drawings

While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With "Dislocating the Orient", Daniel Foliard tells the story o...

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Business & Economics

Do Epic Stuff! Leadership after Change Management

Esteban Rene

ISBN: HB: 9783593511955, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2020
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The fast-paced energy of contemporary society is riddled with distractions, disappointments, and discouragement. From our home lives to our work lives, feeling driven and creative has become exceedingly difficult. The methods of change management are...

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Education

Digital Divisions How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era

Rafalow Matthew H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226726694, ISBN: HB: 9780226726557, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 6 tables

In the digital age, schools are a central part of a nationwide effort to make access to technology more equitable, so that all young people, regardless of identity or background, have the opportunity to engage with the technologies that are essential...

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Political Science

Democracy Declined The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection

SoRelle Mallory E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711799, ISBN: HB: 9780226711652, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 line drawings, 19 tables

As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, "It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five...

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Political Science

Difference without Domination Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

Allen Danielle, Somanathan Rohini

ISBN: PB: 9780226681221, ISBN: HB: 9780226681191, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 10 line drawings

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts t...

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