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Birds

Ecology

Moral Entanglements Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany

Bargheer Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226543826, ISBN: HB: 9780226376639, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 line drawing

At the center of Stefan Bargheer's account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals develop moral commitments. Using life history data d...

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Ecology

Bombs Away Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration

Havlick David G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226547541, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

When viewed from space, the Korean Peninsula is crossed by a thin green ribbon. On the ground, its mix of dense vegetation and cleared borderlands serves as home to dozens of species that are extinct or endangered elsewhere on the peninsula. This is...

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Education

Navigating Conflict How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School

Morrill Calvin, Musheno Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226523736, ISBN: HB: 9780226538761, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 line drawings, 14 tables

Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In "Navigating Conflict", Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban...

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Literary Criticism

Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

Whittier Treat John

ISBN: PB: 9780226545134, ISBN: HB: 9780226811703, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature" tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten...

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Philosophy

On Descartes' Passive Thought The Myth of Cartesian Dualism

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: HB: 9780226192581, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"On Descartes' Passive Thought" is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his pre...

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Culture Studies

Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History

Hackenesch Silke

ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones

This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...

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Political Science

Organizing Democracy How International Organizations Assist New Democracies

Poast Paul, Urpelainen Johannes

ISBN: PB: 9780226543482, ISBN: HB: 9780226543345, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 21 tables

In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democ...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Slonosky Victoria C.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones

Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...

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Criminology

Military

Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today

Anderson Scott A., Nussbaum Martha C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...

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Anthropology

Passion Book A Tibetan Guide to Love and Sex

Chopel Gendun

ISBN: PB: 9780226520179, ISBN: HB: 9780226520032, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"The Passion Book" is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the "Kama Sutra". Realizing tha...

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