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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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America

Polarizers Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

Rosenfeld Sam

ISBN: HB: 9780226407258, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of governme...

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Nature

Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms Revised and Updated Edition

Soltis Douglas, Soltis Pamela, Endress Peter, Chase Mark, Manchester Steven, Judd Walter, Majure Lucas, Mavrodiev Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780226383613, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 60 colour plates, 36 halftones, 129 line drawings, 18 tables

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135-170 million years ago, angiosperms – or flowering plants – are the most diverse and species-rich group of seed-producing land plants, comprising more than 13,000...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Patriarch and the Caliph An Eighth-Century Dialogue between Timothy I and al-Mahdi

Samir Khalil Samir

ISBN: HB: 9780842529891, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Patriarch and the Caliph" presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich deb...

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Business & Economics

Prosperity without Greed How to Save Ourselves from Capitalism

Wagenknecht Sahra, Pickel Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9783593507583, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

It is time to leave capitalism behind. In "Prosperity without Greed", Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has nothing to do with a free market economy, where the innovations we require to solve myriad important...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Pathways of Desire The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men

Carrillo Hector

ISBN: PB: 9780226517735, ISBN: HB: 9780226508177, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings

With "Pathways of Desire", Hector Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attent...

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Philosophy

Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226565705, ISBN: HB: 9780226275857, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in "Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion" is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed...

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Anthropology

Postgenomic Condition Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome

Reardon Jenny

ISBN: PB: 9780226510453, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

While the sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement, the availability and manipulation of such a vast amount of data about our species has inevitably led to questions that are increasingly fundamental and urgent: now that information...

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Philosophy

Poetic Justice Rereading Plato's "Republic"

Frank Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780226515779, ISBN: HB: 9780226515632, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs...

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Buddhism

Prisoners of Shangri-La Tibetan Buddhism and the West

Lopez Jr. Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226485485, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, "Prisoners of Shangri-La" pr...

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