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Education

Making Up Our Mind What School Choice Is Really About

Ben-Porath Sigal R., Johanek Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226619637, ISBN: HB: 9780226619460, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the Uni...

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Contemporary Art

Mathias Poledna Substance

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548670, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, April 2019
132 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 93 colour plates

In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this pr...

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America

Maxwell Street Writing and Thinking Place

Cresswell Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226604251, ISBN: HB: 9780226604114, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 57 halftones

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all...

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Evolution

History

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose Natural History in Early America

Dugatkin Lee Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639109, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalis...

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Philosophy

Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" A Philosophical Guide

Ivry Alfred L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226637594, ISBN: HB: 9780226395128, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary – even contradictory – statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guard...

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Architecture

Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves

Galster George C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226599854, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 tables

Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define them – how do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their r...

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Public Health

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Kaye Abraham Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226623702, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country".Mama Might Be Better Off D...

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Spanish

Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings

Kratochvilova Dana

ISBN: PB: 9788024638690, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! With a focus on Spanish modality, this book presents Bohumil Zavadil's theoretical approach – the first such presentation in English – to this category and, consequently, analyzes its poss...

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Anthropology

Music

Making Music Indigenous Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes

Tucker Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226607337, ISBN: HB: 9780226607160, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even hear...

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Christianity

Ministry of Presence Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226641836, ISBN: HB: 9780226779751, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most people in the United States today no longer live their lives under the guidance of local institutionalized religious leadership, such as rabbis, ministers, and priests; rather, liberals and conservatives alike have taken charge of their own reli...

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