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Current Affairs

Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Mitchell Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226087313, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tr...

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Anthropology

Tragic Spirits Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

Buyandelger Manduhai

ISBN: PB: 9780226086569, ISBN: HB: 9780226086552, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 maps, 2 line drawings

The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy – an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets – quickly led to impoverishment, especiall...

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Political Science

Transition Scenarios China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century

Rapkin David P., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040479, ISBN: HB: 9780226040332, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 21 tables

China's rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat...

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Biography & Memoires

Triumph of Human Empire Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

Williams Rosalind

ISBN: HB: 9780226899558, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 11 halftones

In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of...

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Poetry

Thresherphobe

Halliday Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226038704, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
88 pp., 23x15 cm

In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries – both dire and hilarious – from the perpetual dissolving of our past to...

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Education

Top Student, Top School? How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College

Walton Radford Alexandria

ISBN: PB: 9780226041001, ISBN: HB: 9780226040950, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 tables, 18 line illus.

Most of us think that valedictorians can write their own ticket. By reaching the top of their class they have proven their merit, so their next logical step should be to attend the nation's very best universities. Yet in "Top Student, Top School?", A...

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Philosophy

This New Yet Unapproachable America Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein

Cavell Stanley

ISBN: PB: 9780226037387, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
144 pp., 20.3x13 cm

Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two o...

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Education

These Kids Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School

Nygreen Kysa

ISBN: PB: 9780226031569, ISBN: HB: 9780226031422, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 6 tables

Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In "These Kids", Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering...

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Physics

Astronomy

Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space

Everett Allen, Roman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226045481, ISBN: HB: 9780226224985, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 9 line illus.

Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for...

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Poetry

Theme of Farewell and After-Poems A Bilingual Edition

de Angelis Milo

ISBN: PB: 9780226020808, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
168 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Milo De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. With this volume, Susan Stewart andPatrizio Ceccagnoli bring to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy,...

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