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Law

Hamburger Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226324630, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is administrative law unlawful? This is a central question in contemporary law and politics, and it has become all the more important with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain li...

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Literary Criticism

I'll Tell You Mine Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program

Edelman Hope, Hemley Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780226306476, ISBN: HB: 9780226306339, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers' Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting progra...

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America

It Ends Here The Last Missouri Vigilante

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982850, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 2 maps

In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...

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America

Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings

Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...

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Reference

Information Now A Graphic Guide to Student Research

Upson Matt, Hall Michael C., Cannon Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780226095691, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
128 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

Every day researchers face an onslaught of irrelevant, inaccurate, and sometimes insidious information. While new technologies provide powerful tools for accessing knowledge, not all information is created equal. Valuable information may be tucked aw...

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General

Philosophy

Ideas in History Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas 8:2

Dorfman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9788763543262, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2015
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ideas in History" is the result of collaborative efforts between nearly a dozen universities and colleges to further awareness of research, resources, and activities in the field of intellectual history in Nordic countries and internationally. It en...

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Culture Studies

General

Insane Chicago Way The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia

Hagedorn John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226232935, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 12 tables

"The Insane Chicago Way" is the untold story of a daring plan by Chicago gangs in the 1990s to create a Spanish Mafia – and why it failed. John M. Hagedorn traces how Chicago Latino gang leaders, following in Al Capone's footsteps, built a sophistica...

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History of Art

Institutions and Imaginaries

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780982879863, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Socially engaged art, though its transformative practice, shapes the institutions that surround it. And in a city famous for both its physical and political structures, few creative communities are as deeply intertwined with a city's framework than t...

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Philosophy

Interanimations Receiving Modern German Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226259659, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philoso...

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Europe

Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629-1786

Parez Jan, Kucharova Hedvika

ISBN: PB: 9788024626765, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
200 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to which the Irish Franciscans fled, the Prague Franciscan...

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