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Political Science

Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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Fiction

Papi A Novel

Indiana Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226244891, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Papi's there, around any corner", says the eight-year-old girl at the heart of "Papi".But you can't sit down and wait for him cuz that's a longer and more painful death". Living in Santo Domingo, she waits for her father to come back from the United...

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Political Science

America

Politics of Resentment Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Cramer Katherine J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226349114, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall t...

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General

Processual Sociology

Abbott Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226336626, ISBN: HB: 9780226336596, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a "processual" ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing – making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. H...

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Poetry

Pitch of Poetry

Bernstein Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226332086, ISBN: HB: 9780226331928, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the "New York Times", Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory".Pitch of Poetry" is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary...

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Business & Economics

Political Origins of Inequality Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

Reid-Henry Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226236797, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Inequality is the defining issue of our time. But it is not just a problem of the rich world. Inequality between rich and poor countries, and rich and poor people the world over, is much greater than within countries like America and Britain. It is t...

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History of Art

Europe

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

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Landscape Architecture

Planning Matter Acting with Things

Beauregard Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226297392, ISBN: HB: 9780226297255, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world – from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms – yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which th...

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Literary Criticism

Philip Sparrow Tells All Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist

Steward Samuel, Mulderig Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780226304687, ISBN: HB: 9780226304540, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Samuel Steward (1909-1993) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared his considerable range of experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer of everything from scholarly articles to gay ero...

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Biochemistry

Planet of Viruses Second Edition

Zimmer Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226294209, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 12 colour plates

The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest living things known t...

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