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Ecology

Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies

Lanicci John, Murray Elisabeth Hope, Ramsay James D.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970413, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, November 2019
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones, 10 maps

Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incom...

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America

Business & Economics

Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table

The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Foundations of Paleoecology Classic Papers with Commentaries

Lyons S. Kathleen, Behrensmeyer Anna K., Wagner Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226618203, ISBN: HB: 9780226618173, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
800 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 125 tables

Approximately 99% of all life that has ever existed is extinct. Fortunately, these long dead species have left traces of their lives and interactions with other species in the rock record that paleoecologists use to understand how species and ecosyst...

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America

Music

I'd Fight the World A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

La Chapelle Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226923000, ISBN: HB: 9780226922997, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In "I'd Fight the World", Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics...

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History of Art

Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot

Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573596, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
60 pp., 15.2x24.1 cm, 60 colour plates

In the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Felix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative,...

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Music

Music and the New Global Culture From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age

Liebersohn Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226649276, ISBN: HB: 9780226621265, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate t...

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Political Science

General

Authority Construction and Corrosion

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

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Anthropology

Prayers for the People Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City

Louise Carter Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780226635668, ISBN: HB: 9780226635521, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

"Grieve well and you grow stronger". Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well...

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Political Science

Good Enough for Government Work The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

Lerman Amy E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226630205, ISBN: HB: 9780226630175, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 8 tables

American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens – Republicans and Democrats alike – hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job m...

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Europe

Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

Lugli Emanuele

ISBN: HB: 9780226612492, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
312 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 16 colour plates, 40 halftones

Measurement is all around us – from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures o...

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