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Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...

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Getting Your Way Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226394770, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Getting other people to do what we want is a useful skill for anyone. Whether you're seeking a job, negotiating a deal, or angling for that big promotion, you're engaged in strategic thought and action. In such moments, you imagine what might be goin...

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Education

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Confucius Institutes Academic Malware

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780984201082, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2015
64 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

In recent years, "Confucius Institutes" have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and...

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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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Black Metropolis A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

Drake St. Clair, Cayton Horace R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226253213, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
912 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, "Black Metropolis" remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America...

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Islam

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Shi'ism in South East Asia Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions

Formichi Chiara, Feener Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781849044363, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of 'Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of 'Alid piety allows for a reframing of our vi...

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Political Science

Fortress Europe Inside the War Against Immigration

Carr Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046275, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new "borderless" Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent's worst r...

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Culture Studies

Fast, Easy, and In Cash Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy

Colloredo-Mansfeld Rudi, Antrosio Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226302614, ISBN: HB: 9780226302584, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 30 halftones, 7 line drawings

"Artisan" has become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving rea...

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Anthropology

Ethical Condition Essays on Action, Person, and Value

Lambek Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226292243, ISBN: HB: 9780226292106, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditi...

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Masters of Uncertainty Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth

Daipha Phaedra

ISBN: PB: 9780226298689, ISBN: HB: 9780226298542, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently do a better job calibrating their performance than stockbrokers, physicians, or other decision-making ex...

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