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Law

Alaska Natives and American Laws Third Edition

Case David S., Voluck David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231757, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2012
600 pp., 23x15 cm

Now in its third edition, "Alaska Natives and American Laws" is still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its history as applied to the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Covering 1867 through 2011, the authors offer lucid explanations o...

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Evolution

General

Fair Society The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Corning Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226004358, ISBN: HB: 9780226116273, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power – and more, the duty – to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us t...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium

Cole K. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226113470, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
416 pp., 25x15 cm, 13 halftones

How do we reclaim our innate enchantment with the world? And how can we turn our natural curiosity into a deep, abiding love for knowledge? Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was captivated by these questio...

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Business & Economics

Education

American Universities in a Global Market

Clotfelter Charles T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226110479, ISBN: HB: 9780226110448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 85 tables, 72 line illus.

In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that America's position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in ot...

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Literary Criticism

African American Writers and Classical Tradition

Cook William W., Tatum James

ISBN: PB: 9780226789972, ISBN: HB: 9780226789965, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm

Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Taking the singular instance of the African American writer to heart, William W. Cook and James Tatum here ar...

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Contemporary Art

Audience of Artists Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism

Craft Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226116808, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 38 halftones, 6 colour illus.

The term "Neo-Dada" surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional and painterly interests of the then-dominant movemen...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 19

Cheon Sang Lee, Sohn Ho-min, Cook Haruko Minegishi, O'Grady William, Serafim Leon Angelo

ISBN: PB: 9781575866185, ISBN: HB: 9781575866192, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
547 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the...

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America

Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan Through the Northwest Passage

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781602231696, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
215 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 25 halftones

In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Propos...

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General

Roots of Radicalism Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090863, ISBN: HB: 9780226090849, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables

The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era – religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemper...

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Jewish Studies

Through the Sands of Time A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Cohen Judah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683097, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
332 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1796, the Jews of St. Thomas founded the first Jewish congregation on this Caribbean island. By 1803, new arrivals from England, France, and the neighboring islands of St. Eustatius and Curacao increased the original number from a handful of congr...

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