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Political Science

Politics of Petulance America in an Age of Immaturity

Wolfe Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226679112, ISBN: HB: 9780226555164, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

"How did we get into this mess?" Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he's complaining about or who he's atta...

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Philosophy

Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226668246, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 36 halftones

On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...

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Ecology

Poisonous Skies Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution

Rothschild Rachel Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780226634715, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth's changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through th...

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Anthropology

Prayers for the People Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City

Louise Carter Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780226635668, ISBN: HB: 9780226635521, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

"Grieve well and you grow stronger". Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well...

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Political Science

Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights

Beienburg Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226632131, ISBN: HB: 9780226631943, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Colorado's legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado's legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many...

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Education

Perfect Mess The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

Labaree David F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226637006, ISBN: HB: 9780226250441, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

Read the news about America's colleges and universities – rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators – and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labare...

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General

Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639864, ISBN: HB: 9780226264981, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account i...

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Music

Portrait in Four Movements The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

Patner Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780226609911, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

"Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy" – Daniel Barenboim The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierr...

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Music

Pick Up the Pieces Excursions in Seventies Music

Corbett John

ISBN: HB: 9780226604732, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest – from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered...

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America

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

Burnard Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...

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