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Genetics

Gender Studies

Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

Richardson Sarah S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325613, ISBN: HB: 9780226084688, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 11 line drawings

Human genomes are 99. 9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking...

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General

Survey Measurements Techniques, Data Quality and Sources of Error

Engel Uwe

ISBN: PB: 9783593502809, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
239 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 28 halftones

The accuracy of a survey is directly affected by how the survey is presented, how the questions are worded, and what the format is for responses. In addition, survey methods continue to develop at an accelerating rate to keep step with technological...

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Poetry

School of Solitude Collected Poems

Hernandez Luis

ISBN: PB: 9780983322061, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, August 2015
160 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 12 halftones

Peruvian poet Luis Hernandez is legendary in his native country. Haunted by addiction and spending periodic reclusion in rehabilitation centers, Hernandez was exceptionally gifted in his youth, publishing three books of poetry by the time he was twen...

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Anthropology

Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

Farrer James, Field Andrew David

ISBN: PB: 9780226262888, ISBN: HB: 9780226262741, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city's image as a global metropolis. In "Shanghai Nightscapes", sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew D...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 22

Greve Michael, Hazlett Thomas, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226166667, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
316 pp., 23x15 cm

"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit o...

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Linguistics

Semantic Properties of Diagrams and Their Cognitive Potentials

Shimojima Atsushi

ISBN: PB: 9781575868493, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2015
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why are diagrams sometimes so useful, facilitating our understanding and thinking, while at other times they can be unhelpful and even misleading? Drawing on a comprehensive survey of modern research in philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence, cog...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2014

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226269061, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions. An in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, "The Supreme Court Review" keeps at...

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Literary Criticism

Songbook How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226270050, ISBN: HB: 9780226280516, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 colour illus.

Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poe...

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Genetics

General

Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening

Timmermans Stefan, Buchbinder Mara

ISBN: PB: 9780226273617, ISBN: HB: 9780226924977, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...

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Cultural Studies

Smart Casual The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America

Pearlman Alison

ISBN: PB: 9780226154848, ISBN: HB: 9780226651408, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
200 pp., 25x15 cm, 15 halftones

Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers, white tablecloths, and suited waiters with elegant accents. The stuffy attitude and often scant portions were the punchlines of sitcom jokes – it was unthinkable that a gourmet c...

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