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Asia

Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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History of Art

Scale

Roberts Jennifer L.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171597, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 80 colour plates

Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially dematerialized art, critical and historical research dealing with scale – both within the American critical t...

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America

Business & Economics

Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America

Sklansky Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226480336, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class c...

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Literary Criticism

Stendhal Fiction and the Themes of Freedom

Brombert Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226519357, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors – Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels "The Red and the...

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America

Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis

Doyle Amanda E., Adams Melanie A.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982911, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 18 halftones

The bustling river city of St. Louis occupies a special place in the long history of African American advocacy for civil rights and equal justice. The city was home to a small but thriving population of free blacks even before the Civil War. It was t...

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Children's Books

Fiction

Seal Named Patches

Beltran Roxanne, Robinson Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9781602233317, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour plates

Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antarctica to study the lives of Weddell seals. By finding Patches, a wily seal they've been tracking since its birth, they'll be able to learn a lot about ho...

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America

Education

School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Steffes Tracy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226435305, ISBN: HB: 9780226772097, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife", wrote John Dewey in his classic work "The School and Society". In "School, Society, and State", Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the con...

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Fiction

Safe House A Novel

Boltanski Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9780226449197, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets".The Safe House" tells their story. When the Nazis came, Etienne Boltanski divorce...

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General

Social Theory Now

Benzecry Claudio E., Krause Monika, Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226475288, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal "Social Theory Today". Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda cente...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2016

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226490847, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions".The Supreme Court Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Su...

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