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America

Freedom as Marronage

Roberts Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226201047, ISBN: HB: 9780226127460, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

What is the opposite of freedom? In "Freedom as Marronage", Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Cruci...

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Philosophy

Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes

Crangle Colleen E., Garcia de la Sienra Adolfo, Longino Helen E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867458, ISBN: HB: 9781575867441, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes has contributed significantly both to the sciences and to scientific philosophies. In this volume, an international group of Suppes's colleagues, collaborators, and students seeks to bui...

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Education

Fair Access to Higher Education Global Perspectives

Mountford-Zimdars Anna, Sabbagh Daniel, Post David

ISBN: PB: 9780226250922, University of Chicago Press, January 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does "fairness" mean internationally in terms of access to higher education? Increased competition for places in elite universities has prompted a worldwide discussion regarding the fairness of student admission policies. Despite budget cuts fro...

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Media Studies

Feed-Forward On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media

Hansen Mark B. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226199726, ISBN: HB: 9780226199696, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In "Feed-Forward", Mark B. N. Hansen sho...

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Psychology

Fuckology Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts

Downing Lisa, Morland Iain, Sullivan Nikki

ISBN: PB: 9780226186610, ISBN: HB: 9780226186580, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists – or "fuckologists" to use his own memorable term – John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money...

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Political Science

Fallout Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture

Mallard Gregoire

ISBN: HB: 9780226157894, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 12 tables

Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis – a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing...

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America

Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston

Barr Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...

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Women Studies

Fear That Stalks Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces

Pilot Sara, Prabhu Lora

ISBN: PB: 9789383074723, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
338 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

What are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space"‌ – and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women, but also the poor, transgender people, and others...

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Fiction

Family Secret And Other Stories

Sawian Bijoya

ISBN: PB: 9789383074068, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
160 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm

On a rainy afternoon in Cherrapunji, the postman arrives with a letter for fourteen-year-old Saphira, and her life will never be the same. Dalinia, meanwhile, seems to have the perfect life: successful husband, cute children, a beautiful home. But he...

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Sport

From Black Sox to Three-Peats A Century of Chicago's Best Sportswriting from the "Tribune", "Sun-Times", and Other Newspapers

Rapoport Ron

ISBN: PB: 9780226036601, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bears, Bulls, Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks – there's no city like Chicago when it comes to sports. Generation after generation, Chicagoans pass down their almost religious allegiances to teams, stadiums, and players and their never-say-die attitude, along w...

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