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Science from Sight to Insight How Scientists Illustrate Meaning

Gross Alan G., Harmon Joseph E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226068480, ISBN: HB: 9780226068206, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones, 46 line drawings

John Dalton's molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick's double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world – and the key concepts that explain it – is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images....

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Africa

General

Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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Sea Life

Sharks and People Exploring Our Relationship with the Most Feared Fish in the Sea

Peschak Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226047898, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 188 colour plates

At once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults alike stand awed before aquarium shark tanks, fascinated by the giant teeth and unnerving eyes. And no swim in the ocean is undertaken...

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Ancient World

Savage Energies Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Burkert Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226100432, ISBN: HB: 9780226080857, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Surgical Temptation The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Darby Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226101101, ISBN: HB: 9780226136455, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfun...

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Education

Law

Student's Guide to Law School What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters

Ayers Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226067056, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Law school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self-limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, "A Student's Guide to Law School" is li...

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America

Sacred Relics Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America

Barnett Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9780226059600, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past – often called "association items" – may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued b...

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Sea Life

Sounding of the Whale Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

Burnett Graham D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100579, ISBN: HB: 9780226081304, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
824 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 86 halftones, 18 line illus.

From the Bible's "Canst thou raise leviathan with a hook?" to Captain Ahab's "From Hell's heart I stab at thee!", from the trials of Job to the legends of Sinbad, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, conf...

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Psychology

Sites of the Unconscious Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

Mayer Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780226057958, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transfo...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2012

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

ISBN: HB: 9780226052014, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
400 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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