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Music

Osiris, Volume 28 Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980

Hui Alexandra, Kursell Julia, Jackson Myles W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226053752, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience

Mitchell W. J. T., Harcourt Bernard E., Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226042749, ISBN: HB: 9780226042602, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
152 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

"Mic check! Mic check!" Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take...

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Performing Arts

Jewish Studies

Overweight Sensation The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman

Cohen Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781611682564, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and into the American mainstream with explosively funny parodies of classic songs that won Sherman extrao...

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Political Science

Out of Many, One Obama and the Third American Political Tradition

O'Brien Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226041629, ISBN: HB: 9780226041599, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm

Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In "Out of Many, One", Ruth O'Brien explains why. We are accustomed to seeing politicians supporting...

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Women Studies

Our Pictures, Our Words A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement

Murthy Laxmi, Dasgupta Rajashri

ISBN: PB: 9789381017258, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 300 colour illus.

Vibrant, dynamic, spirited, and forceful. The contemporary women's movement in India, which began in the late 1970s, fought valiantly against dark times marked by violence and misogyny. But it also celebrated – liberation, solidarity among women, and...

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History

Osiris, Volume 27 Clio Meets Science: The Challenges of History

Kohler Robert E., Olesko Kathryn M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226450056, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science reveals how scholars in their everyday practice can work to maintain a sense of a larger purpose. The contri...

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Fiction

Oil and Water A Novel

Evans Mei Mei

ISBN: PB: 9781602232006, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2013
260 pp., 23x15 cm

What happens when the American dream collides head-on with a nation's dependence on fossil fuels? "Oil and Water", a novel by Mei Mei Evans, focuses on precisely this question. Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a w...

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Earth Sciences

Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism

Merrill Ronald T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226006598, ISBN: HB: 9780226520506, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 26 halftones

For the general public, magnetism often seems more the province of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school teachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald Merrill reveals in "Our Magnetic Earth", geomagneti...

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Law

One Law for All? Western Models and Local Practices in (Post-) Imperial Contexts

Kirmse Stefan B.

ISBN: PB: 9783593394930, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
300 pp., 22x14 cm

Delving into archival material from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, "One Law for All?" examines the law in imperial and post-imperial contexts across the globe, including Latin America, Russia, Africa, and East Asia. The essays collecte...

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Criminology

Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law

Phillips Susan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667669, ISBN: HB: 9780226667652, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line illus.

In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted fo...

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