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Prince of Tricksters The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook

Houlbrook Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226133157, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters – royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery – his changing names an...

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Law

America

Policing Immigrants Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines

Provine Doris Marie, Varsanyi Monica W., Lewis Paul G., Decker Scott H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226363189, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 maps, 4 figures, 13 tables

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency – more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being "deporter in chief". Yet despite...

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Anthropology

Patina A Profane Archaeology

Lee Dawdy Shannon

ISBN: PB: 9780226351193, ISBN: HB: 9780226351056, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose – that New Orleans's unique historic fabric...

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Education

Women Studies

Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success

Hamilton

ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables

Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...

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Photography

Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015

Havel Jan, Lab Filip

ISBN: PB: 9788024630175, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
258 pp., 29.2x19 cm, 180 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Pavel Dias's work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was...

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Architecture

World

Practicing Utopia An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

Wakeman Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780226346038, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones

The typical town springs up around a natural resource – a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor – or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns", which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are of...

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History of Art

Picturing

DeLue Rachael Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171573, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2016
216 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 62 colour plates

The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As "Picturing" convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about...

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Reference

PhDictionary A Glossary of Things You Don't Know (but Should) about Doctoral and Faculty Life

Childress Herb

ISBN: PB: 9780226359281, ISBN: HB: 9780226359144, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
304 pp., 21.6x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral progra...

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Literary Criticism

Palace of Books

Grenier Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226378909, ISBN: HB: 9780226308340, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

For decades, Roger Grenier has been charming readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between our lives and our love of the arts. Whether he's turning to literature and philosophy to help us see our canine companions anew in...

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Political Science

America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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