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Political Science

Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Jou Chin

ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...

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Demolition Means Progress Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis

Highsmith Andrew R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419558, ISBN: HB: 9780226050058, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
398 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 17 maps, 3 tables

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress", suggesting that the struggling city could no...

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Political Science

Hero's Curse The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela

Norman Kajsa

ISBN: HB: 9781849047951, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolivar, to stir popular support. While Bolivar's heroic struggle helped free a continent, his affinity for dictatorial rule...

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Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution

Eckstein Arthur M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...

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Surge of Piety Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life

Lane Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300203738, Yale University Press, February 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The dramatic, untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt...

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Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Determined to Stand and Fight The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864

Quint Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9781611213461, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.

In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River. Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the capit...

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Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Brisman Shira

ISBN: HB: 9780226354750, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 colour plates, 86 halftones

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Durer, Shira B...

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Seward's Folly A New Look at the Alaska Purchase

Farrow Lee A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233034, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 maps

The Alaska Purchase – denounced at the time as "Seward's Folly" but now seen as a masterstroke – is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just...

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General

Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Reid Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780226409214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and ma...

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