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Ecology

Great Derangement Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Ghosh Amitav

ISBN: PB: 9780226526812, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since "In an Antique Land",...

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Education

What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education

Galt Harpham Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226480817, ISBN: HB: 9780226480787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to...

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Poetry

Whiteout

Goodfellow Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9781602233270, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as...

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Literary Criticism

Uncomfortable Situations Emotion between Science and the Humanities

Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226485034, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 1 line drawing

What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was "happily situated" as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask. Science and the humanities typically offe...

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Education

Paying the Price College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Goldrick-Rab Sara

ISBN: PB: 9780226527147, ISBN: HB: 9780226404349, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 21 tables

If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with "Paying the Price", she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Toward Nationalism's End An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn

Gordon Adi

ISBN: PB: 9781512600872, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his...

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Jewish Studies

General

Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought

Goldberg Chad Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226460550, ISBN: HB: 9780226460413, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphas...

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Law

General

Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law

Goldfeder Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...

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Music

Beethoven's Symphonies Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226453880, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 18 halftones

In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the...

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Law

Judicial Reputation A Comparative Theory

Garoupa Nuno, Ginsburg Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226478708, ISBN: HB: 9780226290591, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 14 tables

Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They m...

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