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Political Science

America

Why Parties? A Second Look

Aldrich John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012742, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 24 tables, 24 line illus.

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, "Why Parties?" has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark...

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Education

Wannabe U Inside the Corporate University

Tuchman Gaye

ISBN: PB: 9780226815305, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Based on years of observation at a large state university, "Wannabe U" tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such u...

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Criminology

Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Preib Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226679822, ISBN: HB: 9780226679808, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
176 pp., 21.3x14 cm

Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department – a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the Ci...

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Film Studies

When Movies Mattered Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Kehr Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226429410, ISBN: HB: 9780226429403, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the "New York Times", then you are already familiar with one of our nation's premier film critics. If you love mo...

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Biography & Memoires

When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...

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Linguistics

World Color Survey

Kay Paul, Berlin Brent, Maffi Luisa, Merrifield William R., Cook Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781575864167, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
600 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

The 1969 publication of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's "Basic Color Terms" proved explosive and controversial. Contrary to the then-popular doctrine of random language variation, Berlin and Kay's multilingual study of color nomenclature indicated a cros...

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History of Art

Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures

Iversen Margaret, Melville Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones

Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...

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Political Science

Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process

Redlawsk David P., Tolbert Caroline J., Donovan Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226706962, ISBN: HB: 9780226706955, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 tables, 53 line illus.

If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president".Why Iowa?" offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from ho...

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Biography & Memoires

White Field, Black Sheep A Lithuanian-American Life

Markelis Daiva

ISBN: HB: 9780226505305, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
200 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 21 halftones

Her parents never really explained what a D. P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that "displaced person" was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chi...

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Ancient World

Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Charpin Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9780226101583, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization – home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code o...

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