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Women Studies

Women Changing India

Butalia Urvashi, Roy Anita

ISBN: HB: 9788189884970, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

India is changing. And at the heart of this change are its women. The change is widespread and varied, individual and collective, reflecting the full spectrum of women's lives, whether in politics or in economics, in business, or within their daily d...

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Poetry

Dreams of Waking An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry, 1400-1700

Barletta Vincent, Bajus Mark L., Malik Cici

ISBN: PB: 9780226011332, ISBN: HB: 9780226011165, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 3 halftones

In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about langua...

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Philosophy

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Berkeley George

ISBN: PB: 9780941736053, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
200 pp., 23x15 cm

Deeply original, inspiring to some, abhorrent to others, George Berkeley's philosophy of immaterialism is still influential three hundred years after the publication of his most widely read book, "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous". Berkele...

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Fiction

Reprisal A Novel

Bonanni Laudomia

ISBN: HB: 9780226063805, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In the bitterly cold winter of 1943, the Italian countryside is torn apart by violence as partisans wage a guerilla war against the occupying German army and their local fascist allies. In the midst of this conflict, a ragtag group of fascist support...

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Evolution

Darwin Deleted Imagining a World without Darwin

Bowler Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226068671, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks:What i...

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Biography & Memoires

Boots, Bikes, and Bombers Adventures of Alaska Conservationist Ginny Hill Wood

Brewster Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781602231733, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 120 halftones

"Boots, Bikes, and Bombers" presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military...

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America

Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780226004181, ISBN: HB: 9780226075976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 halftones, 9 line illus.

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California...

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Anthropology

Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

Burch Ernest S. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231795, ISBN: HB: 9781602231788, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
216 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 20 maps

In his final, major publication Ernest S".Tiger" Burch Jr. reconstructs the distribution of caribou herds in northwest Alaska using data and information from research conducted over the past several decades as well as sources that predate western sci...

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General

Methods for Transdisciplinary Research A Primer for Practice

Bergmann Matthias, Jahn Thomas, Knobloch Tobias, Krohn Wolfgang, Pohl Christian, Schramm Engelbert

ISBN: PB: 9783593396477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
295 pp., 21.5x14 cm

To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has recently come to the forefront. By integrating multiple disciplines as well as the expertise of partners from the societ...

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Islam

General

Finding Mecca in America How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

Bilici Mucahit

ISBN: PB: 9780226049571, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 6 line illus.

The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America...

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