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Psychology

General

Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague Causes, Contexts and Prospects

Vagnerova Marie, Csemy Ladislav, Marek Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024645254, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situa...

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General

Ecology

How Green Became Good Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

Angelo Hillary

ISBN: PB: 9780226739045, ISBN: HB: 9780226738994, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developme...

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Fiction

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Hidden Path

Fortun Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780997228786, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following...

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Political Science

House of Mirrors Justin Trudeau's Foreign Policy

Engler Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781551647494, ISBN: HB: 9781551647517, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents himself as progressive on foreign affairs. According to Trudeau, he and his Liberals have brought Canada back after the disastrous Conservative government under Stephen Harper. In House of Mirrors, Yves...

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Education

How Schools Really Matter Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

Downey Douglas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226733227, ISBN: HB: 9780226733197, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 figures

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal – that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools se...

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Political Science

How the Tea Party Captured the GOP Insurgent Factions in American Politics

Blum Rachel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226687520, ISBN: HB: 9780226687490, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 line drawings, 3 tables

The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influenc...

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Fiction

Hallelujah Station and Other Stories

O'Wain M. Randal

ISBN: PB: 9781938769597, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

M. Randal O'Wain's debut short story collection, Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, introduces readers to a wide and diverse cast of characters struggling with and responding to changes and loss. These gritty and poignant stories follow the tragic...

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Literary Criticism

Hooked Art and Attachment

Felski Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226729633, ISBN: HB: 9780226729466, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeli...

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America

Hope and Scorn Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics

Brown Michael J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226718149, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Intellectuals "have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn", writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: are intellectual public figures essential voi...

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Law

How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine

Schlag Pierre, Griffin Amy J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226726243, ISBN: HB: 9780226726106, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables

Legal doctrine – the creation of doctrinal concepts, arguments, and legal regimes built on the foundation of written law – is the currency of contemporary law. Yet law students, lawyers, and judges often take doctrine for granted, without asking even...

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