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Jewish Studies

Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State Israel's Civil War

Weiss Susan M., Gross-Horowitz Netty C.

ISBN: HB: 9781611683639, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of...

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Ecology

World of Rivers Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

Wohl Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226007601, ISBN: HB: 9780226904788, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 64 halftones, 1 line illus.

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage say...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

In Time Poets, Poems, and the Rest

Williams C. K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226899510, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his vers...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Touching Encounters Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting

Walby Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780226870069, ISBN: HB: 9780226870052, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
232 pp., 23x15 cm

Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved i...

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Contemporary Art

Permission to Laugh Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art

Williams Gregory H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226898957, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
248 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 76 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Permission to Laugh" explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six o...

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General

Declining Significance of Race Blacks and Changing American Institutions (Third Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901411, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

When first published in 1980, "The Declining Significance of Race" immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the...

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General

Truly Disadvantaged The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Second Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901268, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 13 line illus.

Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life i...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903132, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 figures, 86 tables

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in...

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America

In Hock Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression

Woloson Wendy A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226905686, ISBN: HB: 9780226905679, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 39 halftones

The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, "In Hock" demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic t...

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Media Studies

Drop Dead Gorgeous Representations of Corpses in American TV Shows

Weber Tina

ISBN: PB: 9783593395074, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
267 pp., 22x14 cm, 60 colour illus.

Previously only ever seen, briefly, at the scene of their demise, corpses have become a central part of many popular American television shows in the twenty-first century. From "CSI" to "Six Feet Under", extended portrayals of dead bodies – in the mo...

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