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Africa

Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226453606, ISBN: HB: 9780226453576, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country ap...

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Jewish Studies

Sabbatian Heresy Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity

Maciejko Pawel

ISBN: PB: 9781512600520, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626-1676) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in Judaism that spread across Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in wh...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Capacity to Work at Older Ages

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226442877, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2017
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 188 line drawings, 127 tables

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between...

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Evolution

Anthropology

Synthetic How Life Got Made

Roosth Sophia

ISBN: PB: 9780226440460, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation....

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Political Science

Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited

Zuckert Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226490670, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Tocqueville's thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interac...

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General

Media Studies

Social Media – New Masses

Baxmann Inge, Beyes Timon, Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...

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America

Political Science

Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Jou Chin

ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...

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History

Science in the Archives Pasts, Presents, Futures

Daston Lorraine

ISBN: PB: 9780226432366, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 11 line drawings, 1 table

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by g...

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Buddhism

Storied Sage Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha

Auerback Micah L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226286389, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has...

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Political Science

Strategic Party Government Why Winning Trumps Ideology

Koger Gregory, Lebo Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424606, ISBN: HB: 9780226424576, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 figures, 16 tables

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compellin...

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