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America

Trading Spaces The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism

Hart Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780226659817, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In "Trad...

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America

Troublemakers Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay

Gellman Erik S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226603926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 72 colour plates, 175 halftones

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? "Troublemakers" fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In di...

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Literary Criticism

Thinking with Shakespeare Essays on Politics and Life

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226710198, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions – bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life – animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 33

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645865, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume presents five new studies on taxation and government transfer programs. Alexander Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff, Stephen Ross, and Sergio Villar Vallenas show how asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts, which are currently...

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History of Art

Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot

Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573596, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
60 pp., 15.2x24.1 cm, 60 colour plates

In the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Felix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative,...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature

Scranton Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...

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Birds

Thinking Like a Parrot Perspectives from the Wild

Bond Alan, Diamond Judy

ISBN: HB: 9780226248783, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line drawings

People form enduring emotional bonds with other animal species, such as dogs, cats, and horses. For the most part, these are domesticated animals, with one notable exception: Many people form close and supportive relationships with parrots, even thou...

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Linguistics

Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen

Condoravdi Cleo, Holloway King Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9781684000487, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, May 2019
599 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the fo...

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Poetry

Tribunal

Hejinian Lyn

ISBN: PB: 9781632430663, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The three works of poetry that constitute "Tribunal" were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and – especially in the United States – reassertions of white suprem...

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Nature

Ecology

Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne, Wohlhauser Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables

In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...

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