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America

Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War

Darda Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...

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Geriatrics

Law

Speaking for the Dying Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care

Shapiro Susan P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226615745, ISBN: HB: 9780226615608, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 13 tables

Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions – literally – will therefore be made by someone el...

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Political Science

Good Enough for Government Work The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

Lerman Amy E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226630205, ISBN: HB: 9780226630175, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 8 tables

American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens – Republicans and Democrats alike – hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job m...

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Political Science

Great Broadening How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

Jones Bryan D., Theriault Sean M., Whyman Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226625942, ISBN: HB: 9780226625805, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 line drawings, 4 tables

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society...

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Architecture

Importance of Being Urban Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940

Gamson David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226634548, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 table

For half a century – from the 1890s through World War II – the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power, but in urban school districts and classrooms".The Importance of Being Urb...

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Anthropology

Computer Science & Internet

Life by Algorithms How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World

Besteman Catherine, Gusterson Hugh

ISBN: PB: 9780226627564, ISBN: HB: 9780226627427, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources; the algorithms that r...

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Evolution

Alfred Russel Wallace Companion

Smith Charles H., Costa James, Collard David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226622101, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of "almost-Darwin", a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darw...

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Philosophy

Arc of Love How Our Romantic Lives Change over Time

Ben-Ze'ev Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226633909, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding "yes". The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Be...

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History

Membranes to Molecular Machines Active Matter and the Remaking of Life

Grote Mathias

ISBN: HB: 9780226625157, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, June 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 23 halftones

Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic "channels" in our brain cells' membranes open and close; when we run, tiny "motors" in our muscle c...

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Fiction

Monsters Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mathilda

ISBN: PB: 9781940939704, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, June 2019
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Monsters: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and 'Mathilda'" presents Mary Shelley's most popular works, accompanied by a critical introduction and commentary by scholar Claire Millikin Raymond. Cultures create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing t...

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