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Poetry

Troy, Unincorporated

Abbate Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780226001203, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
88 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in "Troy, Unincorporated" offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer's tragedy "Troilus and Criseyde". The tale's unrooted charact...

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Computer Science & Internet

Cyberscience 2.0 Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks

Nentwich Michael, Konig Rene

ISBN: PB: 9783593395180, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2012
210 pp., 22x14 cm

At the start of the twenty-first century, the Internet was already perceived to have fundamentally changed the landscape for research. With its opportunities for digital networking, novel publication schemes, and new communication formats, the web wa...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Business & Economics

China's Growing Role in World Trade

Feenstra Robert C., Wei Shang-Jin

ISBN: PB: 9780226239743, ISBN: HB: 9780226239712, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 104 line illus.

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in world trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source o...

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Education

How to Succeed in College (While Really Trying) A Professor's Inside Advice

Gould Jon B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226304663, ISBN: HB: 9780226304656, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

After years of preparation and anticipation, many students arrive at college without any real knowledge of the ins and outs of college life. They've been focused on finding the right school and have been carefully guided through the nuances of the ad...

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Nature

Floating Gold A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

Kemp Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226430362, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
232 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 21 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre...

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Anthropology

America

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones

"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...

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Political Science

Rational Empires Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion

Blanken Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226056746, ISBN: HB: 9780226056739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
218 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. Imperialism remains a perennial issue in international relations today, and nowhere is t...

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Political Science

Combating Jihadism American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism

Mendelsohn Barak

ISBN: PB: 9780226520124, ISBN: HB: 9780226520117, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, jihadi ideology is distinctive in its ambition to abandon the principle of state sovereignty, overthrow the modern state system, and replace it with an extremely radical interpretation of an Islamic world...

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Photography

Media Studies

Touching Photographs

Olin Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226626468, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
288 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 84 halftones, 37 colour illus.

Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography's ability to "touch" us t...

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