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Political Science

Who Wants to Run? How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization

Hall Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226609577, ISBN: HB: 9780226609430, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 line drawings, 16 tables

The growing ideological gulf between Democrats and Republicans is one of the biggest issues in American politics today. Our legislatures, composed of members from two sharply disagreeing parties, are struggling to function as the founders intended th...

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Ecology

Wild Sea A History of the Southern Ocean

McCann Joy

ISBN: HB: 9780226622385, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 maps

"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessi...

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Philosophy

With the World at Heart Studies in the Secular Today

Carlson Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226617534, ISBN: HB: 9780226617367, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-centu...

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Poetry

Wounds Fragments Derelict

Kelly Carlos Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781940939926, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Wounds Fragments Derelict" is Carlos Gabriel Kelly's debut poetry collection. These poems comprise a narrative of love and loss. Throughout the collection, Kelly weaves poetic fragments into a narrative expressing the torment of a relationship that...

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Anthropology

Wandering Spirits Loneliness and Longing in Greenland

Flora Janne

ISBN: PB: 9780226610566, ISBN: HB: 9780226610429, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world – a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In "Wandering Spirits", Flora reveals how deeply connec...

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Biography & Memoires

Anthropology

Water Mask

Devine Monica

ISBN: PB: 9781602233720, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Water Mask" is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two...

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Music

Wherever the Sound Takes You Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making

Rowell David

ISBN: HB: 9780226477558, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He's spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In "Wherever the Sound Takes You", he explores the essence of music...

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Reference

Writing Fiction A Guide to Narrative Craft (Tenth Edition)

Burroway Janet, Stuckey-French Elizabeth, Stuckey-French Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226616698, ISBN: HB: 9780226616551, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

More than 250,000 copies sold! A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and "Writing Fiction". Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America,...

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Reference

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Second Edition)

Belcher Wendy Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226499918, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

"Wow. No one ever told me this!" Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics on how to write journal articles. Scholars know they must publish, but few have been told how to do so. So Bel...

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Ecology

Way of Coyote Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds

Van Horn Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780226441580, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn't most nature writers. He lives and works...

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