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Black Metropolis A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

Drake St. Clair, Cayton Horace R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226253213, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
912 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, "Black Metropolis" remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America...

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Masters of Uncertainty Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth

Daipha Phaedra

ISBN: PB: 9780226298689, ISBN: HB: 9780226298542, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently do a better job calibrating their performance than stockbrokers, physicians, or other decision-making ex...

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Ideas in History Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas 8:2

Dorfman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9788763543262, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2015
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ideas in History" is the result of collaborative efforts between nearly a dozen universities and colleges to further awareness of research, resources, and activities in the field of intellectual history in Nordic countries and internationally. It en...

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No Way Out Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing

Duck Waverly

ISBN: PB: 9780226298061, ISBN: HB: 9780226297903, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan fa...

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Souls of Black Folk

Du Bois W. E. B., Holloway Jonathan Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300195828, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black histor...

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Discourse of Race in Modern China

Dikotter Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781849044882, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! First published in 1992, "The Discourse of Race in Modern China" rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the...

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Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society

DeBrabander Firmin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208931, Yale University Press, July 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United States today centers on the Second Amendment of the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, the gun ri...

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Culture Studies

Cities, Museums and Soft Power

Dexter Lord Gail, Blankenberg Ngaire

ISBN: PB: 9781941963036, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
272 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm

"Soft power" emerged as a concept in the late twentieth century to describe international relations based not on military or economic strength, but on influence. While the resources of "hard power" are tangible – force and finance – soft power resour...

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Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America

Duncan Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...

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Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery

DeGloma Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...

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