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Anthropology

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Mana of Mass Society

Mazzarella William

ISBN: PB: 9780226436258, ISBN: HB: 9780226436111, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In "The Mana of Mass Society", William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our under...

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America

Making the Unequal Metropolis School Desegregation and Its Limits

Erickson Ansley T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528915, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's "Making the Unequal Metropolis" presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school polici...

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Jewish Studies

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Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought

Goldberg Chad Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226460550, ISBN: HB: 9780226460413, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphas...

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Computer Science & Internet

Mindful Tech How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

Levy David M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227017, ISBN: HB: 9780300208313, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.6x21 cm

From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overloa...

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Sign Language

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My Mother Made Me Deaf Discourse and Identity in a Deaf Community

Eldredge Bryan K.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686870, Gallaudet University Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table

The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. Howeve...

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Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences

Sayer Derek

ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...

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Law

Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don't Sue

Engel David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226305042, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 figures, 1 table

Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don't! For every "Whiplash Charlie" who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald's customer to pursue a claim over a too-hot cup of...

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Sport

Midnight Basketball Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy

Hartmann Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9780226374987, ISBN: HB: 9780226374840, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders – home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls – is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about...

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Methods That Matter Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

Hay M. Cameron

ISBN: PB: 9780226328669, ISBN: HB: 9780226328522, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 15 figures, 10 tables

To do research that really makes a difference – the authors of this book argue – social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, "Methods that...

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Music

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Music and Capitalism A History of the Present

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311975, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical – they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasiv...

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