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Ecology

Stitching the West Back Together Conservation of Working Landscapes

Charnley Susan, Sheridan Thomas E., Nabhan Gary P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226165714, ISBN: HB: 9780226165684, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 5 tables

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranche...

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Jewish Studies

Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880-1918

Nemes Robert, Unowsky Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611685824, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This innovative collection of essays on the upsurge of antisemitism across Europe in the decades around 1900 shifts the focus away from intellectuals and well-known incidents to less-familiar events, actors, and locations, including smaller towns and...

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Contemporary Art

Something Flashed, Something Broke, Something Remained Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost

Redzisz Kasia, Sienkiewicz Karol

ISBN: PB: 9788364177187, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2014
236 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 68 colour plates, 120 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost was an art group formed in the mid 1980s in Poland by three sculptors: Miroslaw Balka, Miroslaw Filonik, and Marek Kijewski. Their collaborative exhibitions, which included action art, perfor...

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Music

Anthropology

Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia

Jankowsky Richard C.

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226392196, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 7 tables, 7 halftones, 12 line illus.

In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an ela...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2013

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

ISBN: HB: 9780226158730, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
366 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions".The Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront of...

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Evolution

Subjects of the World Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature

Davies Paul Sheldon

ISBN: PB: 9780226137636, ISBN: HB: 9780226137629, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical age...

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Contemporary Art

Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break III

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316376, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2014
72 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 25 colour plates, 10 halftones

"Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III" is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue collar workers of the twenty-fi...

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Other

Anthropology

Spirited Things The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226122762, ISBN: HB: 9780226122625, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The word "possession" is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. In "Spirited Things", Paul Christopher Jo...

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Reference

Scientific Style and Format The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (Eighth Edition)

ISBN: HB: 9780226116495, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
840 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 line drawings, 126 tables

For more than fifty years, authors, editors, and publishers in the scientific community have turned to "Scientific Style and Format" for authoritative recommendations on all matters of writing style and citation. Developed by the Council of Science E...

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Jewish Studies

Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria

Stein Sarah Abrevaya

ISBN: PB: 9780226123745, ISBN: HB: 9780226123608, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In "S...

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