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Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges

Mahmud Lilith

ISBN: PB: 9780226095868, ISBN: HB: 9780226095721, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: There ar...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Birth of the State Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China

Charvat Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024622149, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2013
358 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 52 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Birth of the State" provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centers in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China. Petr Charvat a...

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Jewish Studies

Best School in Jerusalem Annie Landau's School for Girls, 1900-1960

Schor Laura S.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684858, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Annie Edith (Hannah Judith) Landau (1873-1945), born in London to immigrant parents and educated as a teacher, moved to Jerusalem in 1899 to teach English at the Anglo-Jewish Association's Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls. A year later she beca...

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Nature

Bitter Roots The Search for Healing Plants in Africa

Osseo-Asare Abena Dove

ISBN: PB: 9780226086026, ISBN: HB: 9780226085524, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to un...

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Literary Criticism

Boccaccio A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

Kirkham Victoria, Sherberg Michael, Levarie Smarr Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226079189, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings – which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to my...

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Photography

Music

Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz

Cawthra Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226100746, ISBN: HB: 9780226098753, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 65 halftones

Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much...

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Performing Arts

Bigger, Brighter, Louder 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics

Jones Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226059266, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

The first known "Chicago Tribune" theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements – one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load...

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Gender Studies

Blind to Sameness Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies

Friedman Asia

ISBN: PB: 9780226023632, ISBN: HB: 9780226023465, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to...

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Education

Behind the Academic Curtain How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD

Furstenberg Frank F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226066103, ISBN: HB: 9780226066073, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future...

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