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This winter, curl up
with a good book.

To celebrate the season Chicago-style, faculty of the Social Sciences Division have recommended a few good reads. We hope these books bring you new ideas—and warm thoughts of Chicago this holiday season.

Please consider the Division of the Social Sciences in your year-end charitable contributions. Make a gift today.

American Insurgents, American Patriots:
The Revolution of the People
T. H. Breen, Hill and Wang, 2010.
—ELISABETH CLEMENS, AM’85, PHD’90

Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
Thomas Holt, Hill and Wang, 2010.—KATHLEEN CONZEN

Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
—JUDITH FARQUHAR, AM’75, AM’79, PHD’86

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Friedrich Katz, Stanford University Press, 1998. —MARK HANSEN

In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern
Political Thought in America
Robert Gooding-Williams, Harvard University Press, 2009.
—BERNARD HARCOURT

Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about
Getting It Right When You Have To
Sian Beilock, Simon and Schuster, 2010. —SUSAN LEVINE

Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
Don Kulick and Anne Meneley, editors; Tarcher, 2005.
—JOHN LUCY, PHD’87

The Moment of Caravaggio
Michael Fried, Princeton University Press, 2010. —ROBERT PIPPIN

Labor Markets and Business Cycles
Robert Shimer, Princeton University Press, 2010.
—HARALD UHLIG

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, Little, Brown
and Company, 2009. —KAZUO YAMAGUCHI, AM’79, PHD’81
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