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Fiction

Geography of Water

Emerick Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781602232709, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pa...

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America

Business & Economics

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Erickson Paul, Klein Judy L., Daston Lorraine, Lemov Rebecca, Sturm Thomas, Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...

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Political Science

Reconstructing the Commercial Republic Constitutional Design after Madison

Elkin Stephen L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324012, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

James Madison is the thinker most responsible for laying the groundwork of the American commercial republic. But he did not anticipate that the propertied class on which he relied would become extraordinarily politically powerful at the same time as...

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General

Survey Measurements Techniques, Data Quality and Sources of Error

Engel Uwe

ISBN: PB: 9783593502809, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
239 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 28 halftones

The accuracy of a survey is directly affected by how the survey is presented, how the questions are worded, and what the format is for responses. In addition, survey methods continue to develop at an accelerating rate to keep step with technological...

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Business & Economics

World the Game Theorists Made Game Theory and Cold War Culture

Erickson Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226097176, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings

In recent decades game theory – the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals – has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altru...

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General

Racial Order

Emirbayer Mustafa, Desmond Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226253527, ISBN: HB: 9780226253497, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 line drawings

Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond set out to reformulate how we think about this most difficult of topics in American life. In...

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Mammals

Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis Strategic Metabolic Retreats

Elsner Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226246710, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 14 line drawings

The comparative physiology of seemingly disparate organisms often serves as a surprising pathway to biological enlightenment. How appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner sheds new light on the remarkable physiology of diving seals through comparison wi...

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General

Everyday Troubles The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict

Emerson Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226237947, ISBN: HB: 9780226237800, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

From roommate disputes to family arguments, trouble is inevitable in interpersonal relationships. In "Everyday Troubles", Robert M. Emerson explores the beginnings and development of the conflicts that occur in our relationships with the people we re...

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America

Beyond Redemption Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War

Emberton Carole

ISBN: PB: 9780226269993, ISBN: HB: 9780226024271, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worke...

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History

Osiris, Volume 29 Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Eddy Matthew D., Mauskopf Seymour H., Newman William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226158396, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
450 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner...

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