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Philosophy

Heidegger's Confessions The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond

Coyne Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226419077, ISBN: HB: 9780226209302, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In "Heidegger's Confessions", Ryan Coyne isol...

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Education

Schooling Selves Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

Cave Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226367866, ISBN: HB: 9780226367729, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 8 tables

Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have at...

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Asia

General

Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare and the Law A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions

Cormack Bradin, Nussbaum Martha C., Strier Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226378565, ISBN: HB: 9780226924939, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
344 pp., 25x15 cm

William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philos...

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Law

Invitation to Law and Society An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (Second Edition)

Calavita Kitty

ISBN: PB: 9780226296586, ISBN: HB: 9780226296449, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutio...

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Reference

PhDictionary A Glossary of Things You Don't Know (but Should) about Doctoral and Faculty Life

Childress Herb

ISBN: PB: 9780226359281, ISBN: HB: 9780226359144, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
304 pp., 21.6x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral progra...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Clottes Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226266633, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was...

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Public Health

Vaccine Nation America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

Conis Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780226378398, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and...

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Law

Reason in Law Ninth Edition

Carter Lief H., Burke Thomas F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226328188, ISBN: HB: 9780226328041, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Over the nearly four decades it has been in print, "Reason in Law" has established itself as the place to start for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. This ninth edition brings the book's analyses and examples up...

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America

History

Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

Cohen-Cole Jamie

ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings

"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...

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