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America

World More Concrete Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

Connolly N. D. B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226115146, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 3 maps

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In "A World More Concrete", N. D. B. Connolly uses the hist...

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Education

What Is Education?

Jackson Philip W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226381343, ISBN: HB: 9780226389387, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
136 pp., 20.5x14 cm

One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is". Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the ne...

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Contemporary Art

Willem de Kooning Nonstop Cherchez la femme

Krauss Rosalind E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226267449, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
176 pp., 24x17 cm, 65 colour plates, 8 halftones

In the early 1950s, Willem de Kooning's "Woman I" and subsequent paintings established him as a leading member of the abstract expressionist movement. His wildly impacted brushstrokes and heavily encrusted surfaces baffled most critics, who saw de Ko...

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General

Windows into the Soul Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology

Marx Gary T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285917, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 8 tables

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers – and the merely curious – to see. In "Windows into the Soul", Gary T. Marx, a central figure in t...

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Fiction

Walking A Novella

Bernhard Thomas, Northcott Kenneth J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311043, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
104 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samu...

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Political Science

Why Washington Won't Work Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis

Hetherington Marc J., Rudolph Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226299211, ISBN: HB: 9780226299181, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 figures, 29 tables

Polarization is at an all-time high in the United States. But contrary to popular belief, Americans are polarized not so much in their policy preferences as in their feelings toward their political opponents: To an unprecedented degree, Republicans a...

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Business & Economics

World the Game Theorists Made Game Theory and Cold War Culture

Erickson Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226097176, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings

In recent decades game theory – the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals – has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altru...

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Anthropology

We Were Adivasis Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe

Moodie Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226253046, ISBN: HB: 9780226252995, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

In "We Were Adivasis", anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes", or adivasis – historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institution...

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Fiction

When the River Sleeps

Kire Easterine

ISBN: PB: 9789383074891, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
264 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm

A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams, a place from which he will be able to wrest a stone that will give him untold power. His is a dangerous quest – not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses, and demon...

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Cartography

Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

Carlton Genevieve

ISBN: HB: 9780226255316, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In "Worldly Consumers", Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to priva...

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