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Education
Homeschooling The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice
Dwyer James G., Peters Shawn F.
ISBN: PB: 9780226627250, ISBN: HB: 9780226627113, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice", James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling's history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state...
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Dogs
How Dogs Work
Coppinger Raymond, Feinstein Mark
ISBN: PB: 9780226637761, ISBN: HB: 9780226128139, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables
How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend", but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Copping...
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Political Science
America
How States Shaped Postwar America State Government and Urban Power
Dagen Bloom Nicholas
ISBN: HB: 9780226498317, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 2 line drawings
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and e...
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Business & Economics
Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change
La Croix Sumner
ISBN: HB: 9780226592091, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables
Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understa...
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Philosophy
How Should We Live? A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality
Kekes John
ISBN: PB: 9780226639079, ISBN: HB: 9780226155654, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years...
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Philosophy
Human Predicaments And What to Do about Them
Kekes John
ISBN: PB: 9780226638911, ISBN: HB: 9780226359458, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new...
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Film Studies
America
Hollywood in Havana US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959
Feeney Megan
ISBN: PB: 9780226593692, ISBN: HB: 9780226593555, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movies theaters t...
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History
How Knowledge Moves Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology
Krige John
ISBN: PB: 9780226605999, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational mov...
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Reference
How to Write a BA Thesis A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper (Second Edition)
Lipson Charles
ISBN: PB: 9780226430911, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 28 halftones, 29 tables
"How to Write a BA Thesis" is the only book that directly addresses the needs of undergraduate students writing a major paper. This book offers step-by-step advice on how to move from early ideas to finished paper. It covers choosing a topic, selecti...
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Europe
History of the Czech Lands Second Edition
Panek Jaroslav, Tuma Oldrich
ISBN: PB: 9788024622279, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
650 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 80 halftones, 23 colour maps, 8 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Born January 1, 1993 after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside it...
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