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Business & Economics

From Boom to Bubble How Finance Built the New Chicago

Weber Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226294483, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 5 line drawings, 10 tables

During the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and co...

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America

It Ends Here The Last Missouri Vigilante

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982850, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 2 maps

In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Archives of the Insensible Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory

Feldman Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226277332, ISBN: HB: 9780226277165, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to...

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Literary Criticism

Limits of Critique

Felski Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226294032, ISBN: HB: 9780226293981, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of i...

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Anthropology

Linguistics

Translating Worlds The Epistemological Space of Translation

Severi Carlo, Hanks William F.

ISBN: PB: 9780986132513, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Spirits and the Law Vodou and Power in Haiti

Ramsey Kate

ISBN: PB: 9780226703800, ISBN: HB: 9780226703794, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
448 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones

Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti's problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation's founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both be...

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America

Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings

Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Return to Casablanca Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist

Levy Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780226292557, ISBN: HB: 9780226292410, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andre Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history – from the Jewish...

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Astronomy

Coloring the Universe An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space

Rector Travis, Arcand Kimberly, Watzke Megan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232730, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
200 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates

With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere,...

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America

Making the Mission Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco

Howell Ocean

ISBN: HB: 9780226141398, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 60 halftones

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission ha...

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