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Ecology

How Green Became Good Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

Angelo Hillary

ISBN: PB: 9780226739045, ISBN: HB: 9780226738994, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developme...

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Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

Alexy Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780226700953, ISBN: HB: 9780226699653, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision – the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of brea...

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Political Science

Social Currents in North Africa Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring

Abi-Mershed Osama

ISBN: PB: 9781849048279, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Social Currents in North Africa" is a multi-disciplinary analysis of the social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. The contributors analyse the genealogies of contemporary North African behavioral and ideological norms,...

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Cities as Multiple Landscapes Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans

Antenhofer Christina, Bischof Gunter, Dupont Robert L., Leitner Ulrich

ISBN: PB: 9783593506470, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
529 pp., 20.9x14 cm, 60 halftones, 15 colour plates, 20 line drawings, 4 maps

Cities are composed of a combination of urban and rural spaces, buildings and boundaries, and human bodies engaged in political, social, and cultural discourses. Together, these combine to create what the contributors to this volume call multiple lan...

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Processual Sociology

Abbott Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226336626, ISBN: HB: 9780226336596, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a "processual" ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing – making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. H...

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Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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Anthropology

Banking on Words The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance

Appadurai Arjun

ISBN: PB: 9780226318776, ISBN: HB: 9780226318639, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008 – while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking – was,...

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Philosophy

Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection

Angerer Marie-Luise, Bosel Bernd, Ott Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...

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Deaf Interpreters at Work International Insights

Adam Robert, Stone Christopher, Collins Steven D., Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563686092, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Now, for the first time, a collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars depicts the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights presents the history of Deaf translators a...

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Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England

Andrew Donna T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...

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