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Intersectional Inequality Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty

Ragin Charles C., Fiss Peer C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226414409, ISBN: HB: 9780226414379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 46 tables

For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Ragin has developed Qualitative Comparative Analysis and related set-analytic techniques as a means of bridging qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin uses these impressi...

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Business & Economics

Law

Issues in Law and Economics

Winter Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780226249629, ISBN: HB: 9780226249599, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With "Issues in Law and Eco...

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America

Integrating the Inner City The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation

Chaskin Robert J., Joseph Mark L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226478197, ISBN: HB: 9780226164397, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 6 line drawings, 6 tables

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment – via the Chicago Housing Authority's "Plan for Transformation" – has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban la...

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Jewish Studies

Political Science

Inside the Antisemitic Mind The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany

Schwarz-Friesel Monika, Reinharz Jehuda

ISBN: PB: 9781611689846, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
454 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Antisemitism never disappeared in Europe. In fact, there is substantial evidence that it is again on the rise, manifest in violent acts against Jews in some quarters, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse in mainstream European society....

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Anthropology

Asia

Inheritance of Loss China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire

Koga Yukiko

ISBN: PB: 9780226412139, ISBN: HB: 9780226411941, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones

How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today's globalized economy? With "Inherita...

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Anthropology

Invention of Culture

Wagner Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226423289, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's "The Invention of Culture", originally published in 1975, is one. Wagne...

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Reference

Immersion A Writer's Guide to Going Deep

Conover Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780226113067, ISBN: HB: 9780226416168, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including...

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America

Political Science

Insurgent Democracy The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Lansing Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434773, ISBN: HB: 9780226283500, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counte...

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Contemporary Art

In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum

Bunzl Matti

ISBN: PB: 9780226418124, ISBN: HB: 9780226173818, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at...

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History of Art

Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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