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Business & Economics

Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table

The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Ethics of Space Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England

Grohmann Steph

ISBN: PB: 9781912808281, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2019
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to fin...

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Business & Economics

Economics of Artificial Intelligence An Agenda

Agrawal Ajay K., Gans Joshua S., Goldfarb Avi

ISBN: HB: 9780226613338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings, 21 tables

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. I...

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Poetry

Epithalamia

Batykefer Erinn

ISBN: PB: 9781938769436, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
40 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Inhabiting the claustrophobia of marriage and domestic life, Erinn Batykefer's poems use the deeply personal as the lens through which she investigates larger cultural ideas. She reckons with feeling simultaneously large and small, finding ways to fa...

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Anthropology

Exotic No More, Second Edition Anthropology for the Contemporary World

MacClancy Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780226636023, ISBN: HB: 9780226635972, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
408 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 26 halftones

In this new edition of the anthropological classic "Exotic No More", some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological theory and ethnographic methods can make to the study of contemporary so...

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Military

America

Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War

Darda Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine

Berndt Ernst R., Goldman Dana P., Rowe John

ISBN: HB: 9780226611068, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 line drawings, 67 tables

ersonalized and precision medicine (PPM) – the targeting of therapies according to an individual's genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics – is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The adva...

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Reference

Business & Economics

Economical Writing Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose (Third Edition)

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226448077, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 3 halftones

Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic...

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Psychology

Emotionally Disturbed A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children

Blythe Doroshow Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226621432, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 line drawings

Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental...

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History of Art

Eaglemania Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America

Weston Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9781892850348, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2019
165 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 85 colour plates, 40 halftones

"Eaglemania" celebrates Boston College's mascot, a monumental Japanese bronze eagle, following its recent conservation and return to view. Donated in the 1950s by the estate of diplomat and collector Larz Anderson (1866-1937) and his wife, Isabel (18...

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