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America

Political Science

Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Jou Chin

ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...

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Contemporary Art

Global Work of Art World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

Jones Caroline A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226291741, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 37 colour plates, 128 halftones

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world's fairs...

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History

Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage

Jones Matthew L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226411460, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 1 table

From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed – but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence,...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Oriental Neighbors Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

Jacobson Abigail, Naor Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781512600063, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2016
286 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social,...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

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Criminology

Provisional Authority Police, Order, and Security in India

Jauregui Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9780226403700, ISBN: HB: 9780226403670, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studyi...

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Fiction

Saturnin

Jirotka Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....

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Education

Have a Little Faith Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

Justice Benjamin, Macleod Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226400457, ISBN: HB: 9780226400310, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It isn't just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heate...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Henry James A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

James Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226408545, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
208 pp., 18.4x12.7 cm

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, "The Daily Henry James" is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom – a limited edition quo...

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Philosophy

Timeliness of George Herbert Mead

Joas Hans, Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226376943, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

George Herbert Mead is widely considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work remains vibrant and relevant to many areas of scholarly inquiry today".The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead" brings tog...

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