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Political Science

Cuban Cure Reason and Resistance in Global Science

Reid-Henry Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226709178, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In biotechnology he would be proven right and, today, Cuba counts a meningitis B vaccine and cutting-edge...

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America

City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914-1941

Jones Preston

ISBN: PB: 9781602230842, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
214 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the U. S. Navy was engaged with Japan. Decades later, during...

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Law

Czech Law between Europeanization and Globalization

Tomasek Michal

ISBN: HB: 9788024617855, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
600 pp., 24.1x17 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 2005 the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic granted to the Charles University Law Faculty funds to research developments in Czech law from the last twenty yea...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Choice Converts to Judaism Share Their Stories

Cumsky Weiss Arnine, Weiss Rubel Carol

ISBN: PB: 9781589662094, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Choice", Arnine Cumsky Weiss and Carol Weiss Rubel present the stories of forty-five converts to Judaism. These reflective narratives demonstrate that no two converts' experiences are alike, yet most share some common characteristics: a spiri...

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Poetry

Complete Poems The 1554 Edition of the "Rime", a Bilingual Edition

Stampa Gaspara

ISBN: PB: 9780226770727, ISBN: HB: 9780226770710, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the earl...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate

Evans John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...

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Europe

Colonialism and Science Saint Domingue and the Old Regime

McClellan James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226514673, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables, 1 halftone

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active...

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Fiction

Cold Flashes Literary Snapshots of Alaska

Engelhard Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781602230934, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones

As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred". The selections in "Cold Flashes" – very short prose and black-and-white photographs – embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highl...

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Political Science

Community and Autonomy Institutions, Policies and Legitimacy in Multilevel Europe

Scharpf Fritz W.

ISBN: PB: 9783593391885, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2010
391 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W. Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe".Community and Autonomy" collects in one volume Scharpf...

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Sea Life

Chasing Science at Sea Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678740, ISBN: HB: 9780226678702, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
178 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 4 colour illus.

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation....

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