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Caribbean A History of the Region and Its Peoples

Palmie Stephan, Scarano Francisco A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226645087, ISBN: HB: 9780226645063, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
624 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 2 figures, 1 table, 71 halftones

Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the co...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare Only

Knapp Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226445724, ISBN: HB: 9780226445717, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22x14 cm

Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare's timeless preeminence as an...

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Biography & Memoires

Music

Duke Ellington's America

Cohen Harvey G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112640, ISBN: HB: 9780226112633, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership o...

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Political Science

General

Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada

Halfmann Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...

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Literary Criticism

Kiss My Relics Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages

Rollo David

ISBN: HB: 9780226724614, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of t...

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Philosophy

What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

Smith Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226765945, ISBN: HB: 9780226765914, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
544 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist's quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious b...

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Business & Economics

Criminology

Controlling Crime Strategies and Tradeoffs

Cook Philip J., Ludwig Jens, McCrary Justin

ISBN: HB: 9780226115122, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 tables, 55 line illus.

Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished...

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Film Studies

Great Movies III

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226182094, ISBN: HB: 9780226182087, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
440 pp., 23x15 cm

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces,...

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Poetry

Ziggurat

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226035666, ISBN: HB: 9780226035642, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
88 pp., 23x15 cm

In his first book of poems since his highly acclaimed "June-tree", Peter Balakian continues to define himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with cata...

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Poetry

Contradance

Peck John

ISBN: PB: 9780226652924, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
88 pp., 23x15 cm

In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck's poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck's verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, a...

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