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Nature

Amazing Nature

Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories

Crump Marty

ISBN: PB: 9780226122021, ISBN: HB: 9780226121994, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
212 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 108 line illus.

The natural world is filled with diverse – not to mention quirky and odd – animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the...

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General

Sociology in America A History

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090955, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
880 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 9 maps, 6 tables

Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that s...

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Cartography

Sovereign Map Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History

Christian Jacob

ISBN: HB: 9780226389530, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 45 halftones, 15 line drawings

A novel work in the history of cartography, "The Sovereign Map" argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. As a classicist, Christian Jacob brings a fresh eye to his subject...

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Linguistics

Reference

Surprised in Translation

Caws Mary Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226098739, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
128 pp., 21.9x15 cm, 2 halftones

For Mary Ann Caws – noted translator of surrealist poetry – the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction".Surprised...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Iconography of Pristine Statehood Painted pottery and Seal Impressions from Susa, Southwestern Iran

Charvat Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024609645, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2006
324 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The history, origins and development of the government and state as an institution is an essential question concerning not only the history of Mesopotamia but the development of the human...

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Philosophy

Hayek's Challenge An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek

Caldwell Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226091938, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
500 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as div...

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Philosophy

Possibility of Language Internal Tensions in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Cerezo Maria

ISBN: PB: 9781575864389, University of Chicago Press, September 2005
345 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this volume, Maria Cerezo examines Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" as a response to some of Frege's and Russel's logical problems. In analyzing the tractarian conditions for the possibility of language, she explains the two main th...

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History of Art

Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Jewish Studies

Between Mussolini and Hitler The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia

Carpi Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781584652281, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
351 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 plunged the world into its second global conflict. The Third Reich's attack, mounted without consulting its Italian ally, had other reverberations as well. Chief among them was Mussolini's decision to conduct a "pa...

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Photography

Culture Studies

On European Ground

Cohen Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780226112947, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
128 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 94 duotones

A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember...

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