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Anthropology

Sinister Yogis

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226895147, ISBN: HB: 9780226895130, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story o...

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America

Envisioning the Nation The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture

Boger Astrid

ISBN: PB: 9783593387901, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
321 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid Boger shows in "Envisioning the Nation", at the same time the fairs played i...

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Literary Criticism

Radical Coherency Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005

Antin David

ISBN: PB: 9780226020976, ISBN: HB: 9780226020969, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
384 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

"We got to talking" – so David Antin begins the introduction to "Radical Coherency", embarking on the pursuit that has marked much of his breathless, brilliantly conversational work. For the past forty years, whether spoken under the guise of perform...

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Cartography

Atlas of Socio Spatial Differentiation of the Czech Republic

Ourednicek Martin, Temelova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: PB: 9788024618890, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2011
150 pp., 31x31 cm, 37 maps, 50 graphs, 50 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This unique atlas visually depicts a variety of transformational processes that occurred in the Czech Republic during the past twenty years. Central to the transformation was a rapid econo...

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Anthropology

Sorcery in the Black Atlantic

Pares Luis Nicolau, Sansi Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226645780, ISBN: HB: 9780226645773, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Bol...

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Medieval

Legend of the Middle Ages Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Brague Remi

ISBN: PB: 9780226070810, ISBN: HB: 9780226070803, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Remi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinke...

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Education

Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought A Compendium of Parallel English-Arabic Texts

Cook Bradley J., Malkawi Fathi H.

ISBN: HB: 9780842527637, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2011
545 pp., 23.4x16 cm

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to "seek knowledge, even unto China". Within the religion, educational theory and practice were founded on the work of itinerant teachers who taught...

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Cartography

Kandik Map

Johnson Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781602230422, ISBN: HB: 9781602230323, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, Francois Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind th...

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History

Histories of Scientific Observation

Daston Lorraine, Lunbeck Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226136783, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 5 colour illus.

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic...

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Gender Studies

Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

Schilt Kristen

ISBN: PB: 9780226738079, ISBN: HB: 9780226738055, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious...

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