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Europe

Science and Emotions after 1945 A Transatlantic Perspective

Biess Frank, Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126487, ISBN: HB: 9780226126340, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rati...

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Ecology

Nature

Second Growth The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

Chazdon Robin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226118079, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With "Second Growth", Ro...

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Music

School for Cool The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity

Wilf Eitan Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226125190, ISBN: HB: 9780226125053, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die – so some fear – at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their care...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat

Johnson Albin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...

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Political Science

Sing the Rage Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

Chakravarti Sonali

ISBN: HB: 9780226119984, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In "Sing the Rage", Sonali Chakravarti wrestles with this question through...

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Political Science

Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Sexual Discretion Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing

McCune Jeffrey Q. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096537, ISBN: HB: 9780226096360, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as "down-low" or "DL" men, many continue to have relatio...

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Middle East

Islam

Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan

Iqtidar Humeira

ISBN: PB: 9780226141732, ISBN: HB: 9780226384689, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
232 pp., 23.1x16 cm

"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Story Larger than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers

Burroway Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780226014104, ISBN: HB: 9780226014074, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the "Saturday Evening Post".Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine – but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work....

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Political Science

Anthropology

Spirits in Politics Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies

Meier Barbara, Steinforth Arne S.

ISBN: PB: 9783593399157, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
265 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Spirits in Politics" explores the interface between religion and politics in African societies by examining recent and ongoing research in a variety of regional settings. Case studies from across the African continent exemplify how – and at which so...

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