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Haifa City of Steps

Scharf Gold Nili

ISBN: HB: 9781512601183, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2017
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Nili Gold, who was born in Haifa to German-speaking parents in 1948, the first year of Israeli statehood, here offers a remarkable homage to her native city during its heyday as an international port and cultural center. Spanning the 1920s and '30s,...

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Criminology

Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...

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Literary Criticism

History as a Kind of Writing Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography

Carrard Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780226427966, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables

In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the "posts" – postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism – which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In "History as a Kind of Writing",...

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Fiction

Human Being Songs Northern Stories

Anderson Jean

ISBN: PB: 9781602233133, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
136 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

The public image of Alaska for those who live elsewhere tends to be bound up with the outdoors. But while that's not necessarily false, it's a far from complete picture. This collection of stories shows us what we're missing: set in Alaska's cities a...

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Hinduism

Hindu Tantric World An Overview

Padoux Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780226424095, ISBN: HB: 9780226423937, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Tantra occupies a unique position in Western understandings of Hindu spirituality. Its carnal dimension has made its name instantly recognizable, but this popular fascination with sex has obscured its philosophical depth and ritual practices, to say...

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Business & Economics

Humanism Challenges Materialism in Economics and Economic History

Floud Roderick, Hejeebu Santhi, Mitch David

ISBN: HB: 9780226429588, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings

Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world. However, care must be taken not to rely too heavily on materialism, with its as...

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History

Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science

Stanley Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226422336, ISBN: HB: 9780226164878, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. As Huxley's...

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Education

Have a Little Faith Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

Justice Benjamin, Macleod Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226400457, ISBN: HB: 9780226400310, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It isn't just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heate...

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Literary Criticism

Horror and a Beauty The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels

Chalupsky Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024631615, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
302 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London – its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through w...

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Business & Economics

Housekeeping by Design Hotels and Labor

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226389127, ISBN: HB: 9780226389097, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings

One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized space that you don't have to clean. That doesn't, however, mean the work disappears – when we're not looking, someone else is doing it. With "Houseke...

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