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Education
Perfect Mess The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
Labaree David F.
ISBN: PB: 9780226637006, ISBN: HB: 9780226250441, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table
Read the news about America's colleges and universities – rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators – and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labare...
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Photography
Mammals
Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries
Leshko Isa
ISBN: HB: 9780226391373, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 48 colour plates
There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet – a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usu...
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Philosophy
On Obliteration An Interview with Francoise Armengaud Concerning the Work of Sacha Sosno
Levinas Emmanuel
ISBN: PB: 9783035801446, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2019
108 pp., 19x11.4 cm, 15 halftones
Emmanuel Levinas's interview with Francoise Armengaud in 1988 is one of the only statements we have from the philosopher, who became influential in various disciplines through his ethics that focuses on the fine arts specifically. Presented in Englis...
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Political Science
America
Democracy and Dysfunction
Levinson Sanford, Balkin Jack M.
ISBN: PB: 9780226612041, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on...
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Fiction
Burning Daylight
London Jack
ISBN: PB: 9781602233676, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Jack London's lifetime, "Burning Daylight" was one of his best-selling books, yet it has been largely out of print for decades. Now the novel is being brought back for a new generation of readers to discover. The story features one of London's mos...
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Law
Outbreak Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety
Lytton Timothy D.
ISBN: PB: 9780226611686, ISBN: HB: 9780226611549, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 2 tables
Foodborne illness is a big problem. Wash those chicken breasts, and you're likely to spread Salmonella to your countertops, kitchen towels, and other foods nearby. Even salad greens can become biohazards when toxic strains of E. coli inhabit the wate...
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Business & Economics
Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change
La Croix Sumner
ISBN: HB: 9780226592091, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables
Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understa...
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Business & Economics
Land of Milk and Butter How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry
Lampe Markus, Sharp Paul
ISBN: HB: 9780226549507, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 29 line drawings, 25 tables
How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today? Historians have often pointed to developments from the late nineteenth century, when small peasant farmers worked together through agricultural c...
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Business & Economics
Innovation Policy and the Economy 2018 Volume 19
Stern Scott, Lerner Josh
ISBN: HB: 9780226645247, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2019
250 pp., 23x15 cm
This volume highlights the interaction between public policy and innovation. The first chapter documents the dramatic globalization of R&D and how this development has affected the efforts of  U. S. multinationals to operate on the global technology...
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Literary Criticism
Gender Studies
Someone The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herve Guibert
Lucey Michael
ISBN: PB: 9780226606217, ISBN: HB: 9780226606187, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In "Someone", Michael Lucey conside...
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