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Business & Economics

After the Flood How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought

Glaeser Edward L., Santos Tano, Weyl E. Glen

ISBN: HB: 9780226443546, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 19 line drawings, 15 tables

The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets – and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great Recession in the United States to the banking cri...

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Photography

Media Studies

Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy

Kennedy Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones

In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...

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Photography

Albino

Palacios Ana

ISBN: HB: 9788494423413, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
108 pp., 27.9x31.1 cm, 82 colour plates

In "Albino", photojournalist Ana Palacios takes us inside a shelter for people with albinism and reveals what daily life is like for those living with the genetic condition in Tanzania. As Palacios documents, widespread ignorance of the causes of alb...

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Architecture

American Imperial Pastoral The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines

Tinio McKenna Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226417769, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "Made No Little Plans", set off for the Philippines, the new US colonial acquisition. Charged with designing environments for the occupation government, Burnha...

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America

Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Brisman Shira

ISBN: HB: 9780226354750, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 colour plates, 86 halftones

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Durer, Shira B...

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Reference

Art of Creative Research A Field Guide for Writers

Gerard Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226179803, ISBN: HB: 9780226179773, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world – when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2016, Issue 42

Vilalta Helena, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381706, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Issue 42 of "Afterall" addresses the crisis of representation in contemporary art through the work of Pierre Huyghe and Tania Bruguera, reflecting on how they each intervene into biological and political systems. We also put a spotlight on the contri...

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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Anthropology

Medieval

Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries

Kay Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226436739, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates, 28 halftones

Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin besti...

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Ecology

Sea Life

All the Boats on the Ocean How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing

Finley Carmel

ISBN: HB: 9780226443379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already strug...

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