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Christianity

America

Body of Faith A Biological History of Religion in America

Fuller Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226025087, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm

The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models...

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General

Black Picket Fences, Second Edition Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Pattillo Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226021195, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's "Black Picket Fences" explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a...

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Sea Life

Billion-Dollar Fish The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226022345, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 line illus.

Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions a...

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Biography & Memoires

Bernini His Life and His Rome

Mormando Franco

ISBN: PB: 9780226055237, ISBN: HB: 9780226538525, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
456 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 halftones

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leona...

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Criminology

Black Child-Savers Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice

Ward Geoff K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226873183, ISBN: HB: 9780226873169, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones, 8 tables, 1 line illus.

During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufact...

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Photography

Box of Photographs

Grenier Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226308319, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
120 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 16 halftones

Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how...

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Philosophy

Before the Law Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame

Wolfe Cary

ISBN: PB: 9780226922416, ISBN: HB: 9780226922409, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
152 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the Law", Ca...

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Biography & Memoires

Boots, Bikes, and Bombers Adventures of Alaska Conservationist Ginny Hill Wood

Brewster Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781602231733, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 120 halftones

"Boots, Bikes, and Bombers" presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Bali Marine Rapid Assessment Program 2011

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Ratha I Made Jaya, Purwanto Saleh

ISBN: PB: 9781934151518, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, March 2013
135 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 72 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from marine biological assessments of fifty-two sites around the coast of Bali. The purpose of the survey was to collect data on biodiversity and coral reef health in order to provide recommendations for the governme...

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America

Buffalo Bill in Bologna The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

Rydell Robert W., Kroes Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007120, ISBN: HB: 9780226732428, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones

When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach o...

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