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Education

Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited China, Japan, and the United States

Tobin Joseph, Hsueh Yeh, Karasawa Mayumi

ISBN: PB: 9780226805047, ISBN: HB: 9780226805030, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 95 halftones

Published twenty years ago, the original "Preschool in Three Cultures" was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead au...

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America

Law

State as a Work of Art The Cultural Origins of the Constitution

Slauter Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226761961, ISBN: HB: 9780226761954, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
392 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 5 line illus.

The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial n...

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Criminology

Truth Machine The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

Lynch Michael, Cole Simon A., McNally Ruth, Jordan Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226498072, ISBN: HB: 9780226498065, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
416 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

DNA profiling – commonly known as DNA fingerprinting – is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable "truth machine" that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. Bu...

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Anthropology

Islam

Varieties of Muslim Experience Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226726175, ISBN: HB: 9780226726168, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
278 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm

In "Varieties of Muslim Experience", anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist mi...

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Contemporary Art

Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break II

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316314, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2011
96 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 125 halftones

This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...

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Photography

Media Studies

No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...

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Astronomy

Physical Processes in Circumstellar Disks around Young Stars

Garcia Paulo J. V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226282299, ISBN: HB: 9780226282282, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
440 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 15 halftones, 78 line illus., 12 colour illus.

Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar ima...

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Business & Economics

Shared Capitalism at Work Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-Based Stock Options

Kruse Douglas L., Freeman Richard B., Blasi Joseph R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226456676, ISBN: HB: 9780226056951, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 tables, 22 line illus.

The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effe...

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Culture Studies

Switching Codes Thinking through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Bartscherer Thomas, Coover Roderick

ISBN: PB: 9780226038315, ISBN: HB: 9780226038308, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
448 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 40 halftones, 4 line illus.

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change...

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Philosophy

Transfigurements On the True Sense of Art

Sallis John

ISBN: PB: 9780226734187, ISBN: HB: 9780226734224, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
204 pp., 22.6x15 cm

"Transfigurements" develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in their texts and theories while a...

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