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Music

Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles

Gluck Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226527000, ISBN: HB: 9780226180762, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when h...

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Anthropology

General

Mana of Mass Society

Mazzarella William

ISBN: PB: 9780226436258, ISBN: HB: 9780226436111, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In "The Mana of Mass Society", William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our under...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses Current Knowledge and Challenges

Haltiwanger John, Hurst Erik, Miranda Javier, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226454078, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings, 121 tables

Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company l...

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Philosophy

Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe An Interpretation of "The Spirit of the Laws"

Sullivan Vickie B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226482910, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Montesquieu is rightly famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates in his writings overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, a care...

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Business & Economics

Money Problem Rethinking Financial Regulation

Ricks Morgan

ISBN: PB: 9780226528120, ISBN: HB: 9780226330327, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a 'public' or 'private' activity –...

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Education

MOOCs and Their Afterlives Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education

Losh Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226469454, ISBN: HB: 9780226469317, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables

A trio of headlines in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" seem to say it all: in 2013, "A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves"; in 2014, "Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise", and in 2015, "The MOOC Hype Fades". At the beginning of the 2010s, M...

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Earth Sciences

Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology: Lab Manual Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lackmann Gary, Tyle Kevin R.

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781878220264, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, August 2017
144 pp., 24.2x18.6 cm, 20 line drawings

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technology. However, the benefit of these advances can only be fully realized with the introduction of a systema...

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Anthropology

Africa

Matatu A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Mutongi Kenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226471396, ISBN: HB: 9780226130866, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus – colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed o...

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America

Making the Unequal Metropolis School Desegregation and Its Limits

Erickson Ansley T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528915, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's "Making the Unequal Metropolis" presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school polici...

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Philosophy

Magnus Eiriksson A Forgotten Contemporary of Kierkegaard

Schreiber Gerhard, Stewart Jon

ISBN: HB: 9788763543903, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, August 2017
478 pp., 22.9x14 cm

This book is the first anthology of writings to be devoted to Icelandic theologian and religious writer Magnus Eiriksson (1806-1881). A contemporary of Kierkegaard, Eiriksson made a name (and enemies) for himself by being an outspoken advocate of tol...

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