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Philosophy

Bad Conscience

Jankelevitch Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780226009537, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Vladimir Jankelevitch was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century philosophy. In "The Bad Conscience" – published in 1933 and subsequently revised and expanded – Jankelevitch lays the foundations for his later work, Forgiveness, grapp...

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Education

Bricks and Mortar The Making of a Real Education at the Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781575867397, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The rise of online learning is rapidly transforming how and what teachers teach, and even who – or what – teachers are. In the midst of these changes, the characteristics that have historically defined a high-quality education are easily lost. Not on...

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Political Science

Beyond the World Bank Agenda An Institutional Approach to Development

Stein Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226214771, ISBN: HB: 9780226771670, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World...

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Anthropology

Behold the Black Caiman A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

Bessire Lucas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175577, ISBN: HB: 9780226140896, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In 2004, one of the world's last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers' bulldozers. "Behold the Black Caiman" is Lucas Bessire's intimate chronicle...

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Mammals

Bats A World of Science and Mystery

Fenton M. Brock, Simmons Nancy B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065120, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 342 colour plates, 29 line drawings

There are more than 1,300 species of bats – or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night" consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat se...

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Anthropology

Beyond Nature and Culture

Descola Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9780226212364, ISBN: HB: 9780226144450, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
488 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 3 line illus.

Successor to Claude Levi-Strauss at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and "Beyond Nature and Culture" has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French...

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Europe

Between History and Myth Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: HB: 9780226140926, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 12 line drawings, 29 tables

All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt t...

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General

Becoming Mead The Social Process of Academic Knowledge

Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226171401, ISBN: HB: 9780226171371, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book "Mind, Self, and Society", which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however...

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Sport

Black Men Can't Shoot

Brooks Scott N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211411, ISBN: HB: 9780226076034, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 tables

The myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it's usually talked about only when a sports commentator or celebrity embarrasses himself by bringing it up in public. Those gaffes are swiftly decried as racist, but apart from their lin...

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Gender Studies

Business of Sex

Murthy Laxmi, Seshu Saraswathi

ISBN: HB: 9789381017814, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2014
236 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, "The Business of Sex" corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and...

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