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Nutrition

Nutrition for a Better Life A Journey from the Origins of Industrial Food Production to Nutrigenomics

Brabeck-Letmathe Peter

ISBN: HB: 9783593505978, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm, 6 line drawings

Immense advances in the life sciences have deepened our understanding of the connection between nutrition and health, revealing that we can effectively improve our health and quality of life by redesigning our diet on a scientific basis. In "Nutritio...

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America

Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Brisman Shira

ISBN: HB: 9780226354750, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 colour plates, 86 halftones

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Durer, Shira B...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

Bruno Giuliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226434636, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 24.7x22.8 cm, 80 colour plates, 6 halftones

What is the place of materiality – the expression or condition of physical substance – in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In "Surface", cultural critic and theori...

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Ecology

Science, Conservation, and National Parks

Beissinger Steven R., Ackerly David D., Doremus Holly, Machlis Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226423005, ISBN: HB: 9780226422954, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 13 tables

As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitu...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion

Barkan Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9780226010663, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 maps

What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of i...

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Anthropology

Sex Thieves The Anthropology of a Rumor

Bonhomme Julien

ISBN: PB: 9780986132582, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these a...

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Education

Lost Classroom, Lost Community Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America

Brinig Margaret F., Garnett Nicole Stelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226418438, ISBN: HB: 9780226122007, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 6 line drawings, 14 tables

In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools – public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations – have open...

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Law

Untrodden Ground How Presidents Interpret the Constitution

Bruff Harold H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226418261, ISBN: HB: 9780226211107, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation's best interest. His successors would follo...

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Contemporary Art

Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Benn Michaels Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226421186, ISBN: HB: 9780226210261, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In "The Beauty of a Social Problem", Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty thro...

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Health & Wellbeing

Doctoring Traditions Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences

Bihari Mukharji Projit

ISBN: PB: 9780226383132, ISBN: HB: 9780226381794, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 9 line drawings

Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With "Doctoring Tradition", Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that recasting, upendin...

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