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Business & Economics
America
How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual
Bouk Dan
ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...
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Education
Educational Goods Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making
Brighouse Harry, Ladd Helen F., Loeb Susanna, Swift Adam
ISBN: PB: 9780226514178, ISBN: HB: 9780226514031, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings
We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education – what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In "Educational...
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Jewish Studies
Law
Jewish Legal Theories Writings on State, Religion, and Morality
Batnitzky Leora, Brafman Yonatan
ISBN: PB: 9781584657446, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal...
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Business & Economics
America
Finance in America An Unfinished Story
Brine Kevin R., Poovey Mary
ISBN: PB: 9780226502182, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings
The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance – and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understa...
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Gender Studies
How Places Make Us Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
Brown-Saracino Japonica
ISBN: PB: 9780226361253, ISBN: HB: 9780226361116, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 11 tables
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this no...
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Children's Books
Fiction
Seal Named Patches
Beltran Roxanne, Robinson Patrick
ISBN: HB: 9781602233317, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour plates
Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antarctica to study the lives of Weddell seals. By finding Patches, a wily seal they've been tracking since its birth, they'll be able to learn a lot about ho...
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Literary Criticism
Stendhal Fiction and the Themes of Freedom
Brombert Victor
ISBN: PB: 9780226519357, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors – Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels "The Red and the...
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Europe
Cities Contested Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s
Baumeister Martin, Schott Dieter, Bonomo Bruno
ISBN: PB: 9783593506975, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2017
420 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...
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Fiction
Safe House A Novel
Boltanski Christophe
ISBN: HB: 9780226449197, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets".The Safe House" tells their story. When the Nazis came, Etienne Boltanski divorce...
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Business & Economics
Procurement 4.0 A Survival Guide in a Digital, Disruptive World
Batran Alexander, Erben Agnes, Schulz Ralf, Sperl Franziska
ISBN: HB: 9783593506692, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Although digitalization or smart manufacturing might be considered a driving factor behind Procurement 4. 0 – the latest conceptualization of how modern companies procure goods and services – it is far too shortsighted to view Procurement 4. 0 as sim...
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