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Philosophy

Articulating the World Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image

Rouse Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226293844, ISBN: HB: 9780226293677, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A l...

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America

Married to the Empire Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864

Rabow-Edling Susanna

ISBN: HB: 9781602232648, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map

The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

Transnational Poetics

Ramazani Jahan

ISBN: PB: 9780226334974, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous – "stubbornly national", in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts", according to W. H. Auden. But in "A Transnational Poetics", Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies...

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Law

Second-Best Justice The Virtues of Japanese Private Law

Ramseyer J. Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226281995, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 55 tables

It's long been known that Japanese file fewer lawsuits per capita than Americans do. Yet explanations for the difference have tended to be partial and unconvincing, ranging from circular arguments about Japanese culture to suggestions that the slow-m...

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Genetics

Gender Studies

Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

Richardson Sarah S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325613, ISBN: HB: 9780226084688, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 11 line drawings

Human genomes are 99. 9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking...

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Other

Judaism

Brandeis Modern Hebrew

Ringvald Vardit, Porath Bonit, Peleg Yaron, Shorr Esther, Hascal Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781611689181, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2015
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew Program at Brandeis University, Brandeis Modern Hebrew is an accessible introduction to the Hebrew language for American undergraduates and high school students. Its functional and contextual elements are des...

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Political Science

Global Common Good Intercultural Perspectives on a Just and Ecological Transformation

Reder Michael, Risse Verena, Hirschbrunn Katharina, Stoll Georg

ISBN: PB: 9783593503189, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Global challenges such as poverty, climate change, and economic crises are all problems that the global community must face collectively. But in order to do so successfully, we need to engage in a continued intercultural dialogue on alternative appro...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

Pottery Analysis A Sourcebook (Second Edition)

Rice Prudence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923215, ISBN: HB: 9780226923208, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
592 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones, 124 line drawings, 49 tables

Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a piece's history must start with an understanding of its raw materials. This principle is the foundation of "Pottery Analysis", the acclaimed sourcebook that has become the indispensable...

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Contemporary Art

Art and Contemporaneity

Ruda Frank, Voelker Jan

ISBN: PB: 9783037342091, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2015
176 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic balance between their conditions of production and reception. Art and Contemporaneity features contributions from leading scholars, inclu...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret

Rupp Leila J., Taylor Verta

ISBN: PB: 9780226326566, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled...

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