chicago fall books 2014 chicago fall books fall 2014 street chicago, illinois 60637 th 27 east 60 14 University of Chicago Press of Chicago University Recently Published Fall 2014 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 39 Paperbacks 101 House of Debt On the Run Distributed Books 132 How They (and You) Caused the Fugitive Life in an American City Great Recession, and How We Can Alice Goffman Prevent It from Happening Again ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13671-4 Author Index 356 Atif Mian and Amir Sufi Cloth $25.00/£17.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08194-6 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13685-1 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 Title Index 358 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13864-0 Subject Index 360 Ordering Inside Information back cover The Book of Eggs Bedrooms of the Fallen A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Ashley Gilbertson Hundred of the World’s Bird Species With a Foreword by Philip Gourevitch Mark E. 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Bucsi ISBN-13: 978-0-226-68268-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05750-7 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 Cloth $45.00/£31.50 Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06221-1 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05764-4 R ICHarD ARUM and JOsipA ROKSA Aspiring Adults Adrift Tentative Transitions of College Graduates ew books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses —and newspaper opinion pages—as quickly and thoroughly Fas Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s 2011 landmark study of undergraduates’ learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. From the moment it was published, one thing was clear: no university could afford to ignore its well-documented and disturbing findings about the failings of under- Praise for Academically Adrift graduate education. “Seriously researched, rich in data. Now Arum and Roksa are back, and their new book follows They excavate a world of ugly facts and the same cohort of undergraduates through the rest of their col- unsatisfactory practices that has the lege careers and out into the working world. Built on interviews and gritty look and feel of reality—a reality detailed surveys of almost a thousand recent college graduates from a that has little to do with the glossy hype diverse range of colleges and universities, Aspiring Adults Adrift reveals of world university ratings. In Aca- a generation facing a difficult transition to adulthood. Recent gradu- demically Adrift, Arum and Roksa paint ates report trouble finding decent jobs and developing stable romantic a chilling portrait of what the university relationships, as well as assuming civic and financial responsibility—yet curriculum has become.” at the same time, they remain surprisingly hopeful and upbeat about —Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books their prospects. Analyzing these findings in light of students’ performance on sePteMber 264 p., 12 halftones, standardized tests of general collegiate skills, selectivity of institutions 19 line drawings, 18 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19115-7 attended, and choice of major, Arum and Roksa not only map out the Cloth $55.00x/£38.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19728-9 current state of a generation too often adrift, but enable us to exam- Paper $18.00/£12.50 ine the relationship between college experiences and tentative transi- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19714-2 CURRENT EVENTS EDUCATION tions to adulthood. Sure to be widely discussed, Aspiring Adults Adrift will compel us once again to re-examine the aims, approaches, and achievements of higher education. Richard Arum is professor in the Department of Sociology with a joint appoint- ment in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Josipa Roksa is associ- ate professor of sociology and education and associate director of the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Virginia. general interest 1 StaNLEY FisH Versions of Academic Freedom From Professionalism to Revolution hrough his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our Tforemost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full attention to one of the core concepts of the contemporary academy: academic freedom. Depending on who’s talking, academic freedom is an essential bulwark of democracy, an absurd fig leaf disguising liberal agendas, or, most often, some in-between muddle that both exaggerates its own Praise for Fish importance and misunderstands its actual value to scholarship. Fish “Fish’s pieces on higher education and enters the fray with his typical clear-eyed, no-nonsense analysis. The American culture circulate perhaps more crucial question, he says, is located in the phrase “academic freedom” than anyone else’s in academe. No- itself: Do you emphasize “academic” or “freedom”? The former, he body else has slid in and out of controver- shows, suggests a limited, professional freedom, while the concep- sy and dispute so often, nor has anyone tion of freedom implied by the latter could expand almost infinitely. proven so willing and able to combat Guided by that distinction, Fish analyzes various arguments for the conservatives and (sometimes) liberals in value of academic freedom: Is academic freedom a contribution to academic forums and nationwide media society’s common good? Does it authorize professors to critique the alike. Think of major debates in literary status quo, both inside and outside the university? Does it license and and cultural studies, and Fish is there.” even require the overturning of all received ideas and policies? Is it an —Chronicle of Higher Education engine of revolution? Are academics inherently different from other professionals? Or is academia just a job, and academic freedom merely The Rice University Campbell Lectures a tool for doing that job? October 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06431-4 No reader of Fish will be surprised by the deftness with which he Cloth $24.00/£17.00 dismantles weak arguments, corrects misconceptions, and clarifies E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17025-1 EDUCATION LAW muddy thinking. And while his conclusion—that academic freedom is simply a tool, an essential one, for doing a job—may surprise, it is unquestionably bracing. Stripping away the mystifications that obscure academic freedom allows its beneficiaries to concentrate on what they should be doing: following their intellectual interests and furthering scholarship. Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law in the College of Law at Florida International University and the author of numerous books. 2 general interest Cass R. SUNstEIN Valuing Life Humanizing the Regulatory State he Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the nation’s regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, Cass R. Sun- T stein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of OIRA from 2009 to 2012, to argue that we can humanize regula- tion—and save lives in the process. As OIRA Administrator, Sunstein oversaw regulation in a broad variety of areas, including national security, immigration, energy, environmental protection, and education. This background allows him to describe OIRA and how it works—and how it can work better— from an on-the-ground perspective. Using real-world examples, many “What happens when the world’s leading of them drawn from today’s headlines, Sunstein makes a compelling academic expert on regulation is plunked case for improving cost-benefit analysis, a longtime cornerstone of into the real world of government? regulatory decision-making in this country, and for taking account of Sunstein is that expert, and he was the variables that are hard to quantify, such as dignity and privacy. He also regulatory boss of the US government shows how regulatory decisions about health, safety, and life itself can from 2009 to 2012. Valuing Life describes benefit from taking into account behavioral and psychological studies, both how Sunstein’s ideas about regula- including new findings about what scares us, and what does not. By tion influenced his tenure in government, better accounting for people’s fallibility, Sunstein argues, we can cre- and how his experiences in government ate regulation that is simultaneously more human and more likely to have influenced his ideas about regula- achieve its goals. tion. This immensely rewarding book, written in the humane, beautiful style In this highly readable synthesis of insights from law, policy, eco- that Sunstein is known for, should be read nomics, and psychology, Sunstein breaks down the intricacies of the by everyone who cares about how our regulatory system and offers a new way of thinking about regulation government works.” that incorporates human dignity. —Eric Posner, University of Chicago Cass R.