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Philosophy

Kadi Marion, Kaplan Abram

ISBN: HB: 9783035801408, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
64 pp., 22x15.2 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

We know Isaac Newton as a brilliant polymath, inventor of the calculus and the person who first began to suss out the fundamental laws of physics. But in this delightful account of his life and thought aimed at young readers, we learn oh, so much mor...

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Political Science

Literary Criticism

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Kennedy Liam, Shapiro Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Final Teaching

Gillespie Michael Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226684758, ISBN: HB: 9780226476889, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the best-selling and most widely read philosophical work of all time, as well as six additional works that are today considered required rea...

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America

Technology & Engineering

None of Your Damn Business Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Cappello Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226557748, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

You can hardly pass through customs at an airport today without having your picture taken and your fingertips scanned, that information then stored in an archive you'll never see. Nor can you use your home's smart technology without wondering what, e...

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Fiction

Not Dead Yet and Other Stories

Moore Hadley

ISBN: PB: 9781938769412, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
216 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm

"Not Dead Yet" studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore's debut collection of short stories presents a contemporary set of narra...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2018 Volume 33

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645728, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
500 pp., 23x15 cm

This volume contains six studies on current topics in macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational expectations is unrealistic, a finite-horizon forward planning model can yield results similar to those of a rational expectations equi...

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Film Studies

Nixon at the Movies A Book about Belief

Feeney Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226239699, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
436 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that...

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Music

Nightingales in Berlin Searching for the Perfect Sound

Rothenberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226467184, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions – from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ev...

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Architecture

New York Recentered Building the Metropolis from the Shore

Murphy Schlichting Kara

ISBN: HB: 9780226613024, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones

The history of New York City's urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park".New York Recentered" boldly shifts the focus to the city's geographic edges – the...

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Education

Navigating Tenure and Beyond A Guide for Early Career Faculty

Christopher Sundar A.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970437, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2019
168 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 10 line drawings

This guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situat...

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