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Education

Schooling Selves Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

Cave Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226367866, ISBN: HB: 9780226367729, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 8 tables

Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have at...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Substance of Shadow A Darkening Trope in Poetic History

Hollander John

ISBN: HB: 9780226354279, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons...

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Buddhism

Anthropology

Subject to Death Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

Desjarlais Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226355870, ISBN: HB: 9780226355733, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 1 table

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death's enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With "Subject to Death", Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare and the Law A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions

Cormack Bradin, Nussbaum Martha C., Strier Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226378565, ISBN: HB: 9780226924939, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
344 pp., 25x15 cm

William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philos...

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General

Seductions of Quantification Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

Engle Merry Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226261287, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Y...

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Ecology

Social Lives of Forests Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence

Hecht Susanna B., Morrison Kathleen D., Padoch Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780226322681, ISBN: HB: 9780226322667, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 13 line drawings, 19 tables

Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face – including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation – are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past...

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America

General

Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities

Nightingale Carl H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...

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Reference

Subversive Copy Editor Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Second Edition)

Fisher Saller Carol

ISBN: PB: 9780226240077, ISBN: HB: 9780226239903, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Longtime manuscript editor and "Chicago Manual of Style" guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides s...

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Music

Say No to the Devil The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis

Zack Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780226380988, ISBN: HB: 9780226234106, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music". Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead – who...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Show Me the Bone Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226332734, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones

Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty – "Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!" Paleontologists such as Ge...

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