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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Erickson Paul, Klein Judy L., Daston Lorraine, Lemov Rebecca, Sturm Thomas, Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...

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Europe

Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform

Berkowitz Carin

ISBN: HB: 9780226280394, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 13 halftones

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform – an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the...

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Christianity

Europe

Mystic Fable, Volume Two The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

de Certeau Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780226209135, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 5 tables

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststru...

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America

It Ends Here The Last Missouri Vigilante

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982850, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 2 maps

In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...

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America

Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings

Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...

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America

Making the Mission Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco

Howell Ocean

ISBN: HB: 9780226141398, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 60 halftones

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission ha...

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Jewish Studies

Military

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

Cohen Hillel

ISBN: PB: 9781611688115, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as y...

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Current Affairs

Political Science

Fortress Europe Inside the War Against Immigration

Carr Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046275, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new "borderless" Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent's worst r...

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Middle East

Political Science

Muted Modernists The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rasheed Madawi

ISBN: HB: 9781849045865, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previou...

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Europe

Crimean Tatars From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest

Brian Glyn Williams

ISBN: PB: 9781849045186, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands of Crimean Tatars clashed with pro-Russian militiamen in Simferopol, while Mosc...

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