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Biography & Memoires

Biographies in the Global South Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses

Rosenthal Gabriele, Bogner Artur

ISBN: PB: 9783593507835, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Research into biography has historically focused almost wholly on the lives of people in the wealthier nations of the Global North. This book corrects that with a focus on the biographical histories of people – seen as part of larger groups or collec...

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America

Building a Revolutionary State The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783

Pashman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226544014, ISBN: HB: 9780226334356, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed...

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Ecology

Bombs Away Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration

Havlick David G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226547541, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

When viewed from space, the Korean Peninsula is crossed by a thin green ribbon. On the ground, its mix of dense vegetation and cleared borderlands serves as home to dozens of species that are extinct or endangered elsewhere on the peninsula. This is...

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Reference

Biography & Memoires

Behind the Book Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication

Jones Chris Mackenzie

ISBN: PB: 9780226405803, ISBN: HB: 9780226405773, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two books follow quite the same path, but all are shaped by a similar array of market forces and writing cr...

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Reference

Business of Being a Writer

Friedman Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226393162, ISBN: HB: 9780226393025, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writin...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 2 A Narrative History from 1877

Dailey Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226300825, ISBN: HB: 9780226300795, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 haltfones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 1 A Narrative History to 1877

Watson Harry L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226300511, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
640 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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General

America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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Cultural Studies

Business & Economics

Building Nature's Market The Business and Politics of Natural Foods

Miller Laura J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501376, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

For the first 150 years of their existence, "natural foods" were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure. And those consumers were dismissed by the medical establishment and food producers as kooks,...

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World

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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