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Left Behind Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

Edwards Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780226004662, ISBN: HB: 9780226184784, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources – and a history of productivity and wealth – in recent decades the region has fallen further and further b...

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General

Letting Stories Breathe A Socio-Narratology

Frank Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004839, ISBN: HB: 9780226260136, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us – they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can al...

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Nature

Land of Extremes A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska

Huryn Alexander, Hobbie John

ISBN: PB: 9781602231818, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2012
311 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 620 colour illus.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the...

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Anthropology

Laughing at Leviathan Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua

Rutherford Danilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226731988, ISBN: HB: 9780226731971, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 halftones

For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interloc...

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Music

Culture Studies

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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Law

Lawyers in Practice Ethical Decision Making in Context

Levin Leslie C., Mather Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226475165, ISBN: HB: 9780226475158, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused pri...

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Poetry

Locomotrix Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, a Bilingual Edition

Rosselli Amelia

ISBN: PB: 9780226728834, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
340 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research", Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist I...

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General

Living Faith Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

Crawford Sullivan Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226781617, ISBN: HB: 9780226781600, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare...

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Literary Criticism

Lucretian Renaissance Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226648491, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
264 pp., 20.5x14 cm

With "The Lucretian Renaissance", Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of t...

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Political Science

Lesson of Carl Schmitt Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226518862, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Heinrich Meier's work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt", Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as...

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