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Culture Studies

Equestrian Cultures Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity

Guest Kristen, Mattfeld Monica

ISBN: PB: 9780226589510, ISBN: HB: 9780226583044, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 1 table

As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities – from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and ther...

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Business & Economics

Education, Skills, and Technical Change Implications for Future US GDP Growth

Hulten Charles R., Ramey Valerie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226567808, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 165 line drawings, 61 tables

Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can hum...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Evidence of Being The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

Bost Darius

ISBN: PB: 9780226589824, ISBN: HB: 9780226589794, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Evidence of Being" opens on a grim scene: Washington D. C. 's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest...

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Business & Economics

General

Economics of Poverty Traps

Barrett Christopher B., Carter Michael, Chavas Jean-Paul, Carter Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...

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Europe

Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

Long Pamela O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591285, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 halftones

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hund...

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Fiction

Empty Room

Abbas Sadia

ISBN: HB: 9789385932267, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a sham, a trap from...

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Business & Economics

General

Economics for Humans Second Edition

Nelson Julie A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226463803, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassi...

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Political Science

Enchanted America How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics

Oliver J. Eric, Wood Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226578507, ISBN: HB: 9780226578477, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 line drawings, 2 tables

America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens re...

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History of Art

Enchanted Islands Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226483108, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 43 halftones

In "Enchanted Islands", renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings...

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Ecology

Extreme Conservation Life at the Edges of the World

Berger Joel

ISBN: HB: 9780226366265, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 31 halftones

On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns h...

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