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Gynecology

Tangled Diagnoses Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

Lowy Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9780226534091, ISBN: HB: 9780226534121, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus...

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Media Studies

TVs of Tomorrow How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs

Gross Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226519975, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produ...

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Anthropology

Europe

Two Lenins A Brief Anthropology of Time

Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai

ISBN: PB: 9780997367539, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, "Two Lenins" is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical explo...

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Europe

They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45

Mayer Milton

ISBN: PB: 9780226525839, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg". That's Milton Mayer, writing in a...

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Film Studies

Media Studies

Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art

Stewart Garrett

ISBN: PB: 9780226500904, ISBN: HB: 9780226500874, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 2 line drawings

If you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media – such as painting, or...

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Literary Criticism

Telling It Like It Wasn't The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

Gallagher Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780226512419, ISBN: HB: 9780226512389, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives a...

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Photography

There Was a Whole Collection Made Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman

Letinsky Laura, Moss Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780935573565, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2017
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 235 colour plates

In 2014, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago received a generous gift from collectors Lester and Betty Guttman: 830 photographs, created by a total of 414 artists, that cover a time period stretching all the way from the early 1800s...

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Gender Studies

To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria

Smith Daniel Jordan

ISBN: PB: 9780226491653, ISBN: HB: 9780226491516, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Refrains about financial hardship are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed through the idiom "to be a man is not a one-day job". But while men talk constantly about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns abo...

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Asia

Terrestrial Lessons The Conquest of the World as Globe

Ramaswamy Sumathi

ISBN: HB: 9780226476575, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 51 halftones

Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which s...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 31

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226539270, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in "Tax Policy and the Economy Volume 31" are all directly related to important and often long-standing issues, often including how transfer programs affect tax rates and behavior. In the first paper, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Dar...

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