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Media Studies

Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience

Mitchell W. J. T., Harcourt Bernard E., Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226042749, ISBN: HB: 9780226042602, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
152 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

"Mic check! Mic check!" Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take...

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Political Science

Great American City Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Sampson Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055688, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
552 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 1 table, 6 halftones, 46 line illus.

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories pla...

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Political Science

Out of Many, One Obama and the Third American Political Tradition

O'Brien Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226041629, ISBN: HB: 9780226041599, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm

Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In "Out of Many, One", Ruth O'Brien explains why. We are accustomed to seeing politicians supporting...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Women in the Club Gender and Policy Making in the Senate

Swers Michele L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226022826, ISBN: HB: 9780226022796, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 tables, 10 line illus.

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a "war on women",‌ while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

First Son The Biography of Richard M. Daley

Koeneman Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780226449470, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 24 halftones

"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time', he said" – New...

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Political Science

General

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Swartz David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226925011, ISBN: HB: 9780226925004, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career,...

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Education

Political Science

Education, Justice, and Democracy

Allen Danielle S., Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226012766, ISBN: HB: 9780226012629, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused...

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Political Science

Normality of Civil War Armed Groups and Everyday Life in Angola

Koloma Beck Teresa

ISBN: PB: 9783593397566, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
150 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "The Normality of Civil War", Teresa Koloma Beck uses theories of the everyday to analyze the social processes of civil war, specifically the type of conflict that is characterized by the expansion of violence into so-called normal life. She looks...

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Political Science

Pastoral in Palestine

Hertz Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780984201037, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2013
122 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 78 colour illus.

For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does little to take into account the myriad motivations th...

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Political Science

Social Citizen Peer Networks and Political Behavior

Sinclair Betsy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922829, ISBN: HB: 9780226922812, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 tables, 20 line illus.

Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources...

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