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Law

Congress Overwhelmed The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform

LaPira Timothy M., Drutman Lee, Kosar Kevin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226702575, ISBN: HB: 9780226702438, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 line drawings, 43 tables

Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn't have the internal capacity to do what...

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Women Studies

Picturing Political Power Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement

Lange Allison K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226703244, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 105 halftones

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images – whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been fl...

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Culture Studies

Streets of Europe The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities

Ladd Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780226677941, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 4 maps

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, a...

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Fiction

Keeping Time A Novel

Legendre Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781946724281, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2020
304 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

A crumbling marriage. An ancient mystery. And a way to change the past... When archaeologist Aaron Keeler finds himself transported eighteen years backward in time, he becomes swept up in a strangely illicit liaison with his younger wife. A brillian...

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Poetry

My Second Work

Lowe Bridget

ISBN: PB: 9780887486548, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher's pet". Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget...

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Political Science

Trudeau Formula Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent

Lukacs Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781551647487, ISBN: HB: 9781551647500, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2019 Volume 20

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226707273, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
256 pp., 23x15 cm

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General

Africa

Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa

Ludwig Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones

"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...

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Contemporary Art

Unthought Environments

Lund Karsten

ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones

"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...

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Ancient World

Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

Landauer Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226653792, ISBN: HB: 9780226654010, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an impo...

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