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Philosophy

Poetic Justice Rereading Plato's "Republic"

Frank Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780226515779, ISBN: HB: 9780226515632, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 24

Funakoshi Kenshi

ISBN: PB: 9781684000241, ISBN: HB: 9781684000258, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both language...

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Philosophy

Creatively Undecided Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

Fisch Menachem

ISBN: PB: 9780226514512, ISBN: HB: 9780226514482, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions. By turning our attention...

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History

Making Time Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

Frumer Yulia

ISBN: HB: 9780226516448, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything – it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In "Making Time", Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in...

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Anthropology

Qanemcit Amllertut / Many Stories to Tell Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann, Rearden Alice

ISBN: PB: 9781602233362, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates

This bilingual collection shares new translations of old stories recorded over the last four decades though interviews with Yup'ik elders from throughout southwest Alaska. Some are true qulirat (traditional tales), while others are recent. Some are w...

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Anthropology

Writing the World of Policing The Difference Ethnography Makes

Fassin Didier

ISBN: PB: 9780226497648, ISBN: HB: 9780226497501, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research".Writing the World of Policing" brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforc...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Second Edition, 2017-2018

Frankhart Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226521770, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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Business & Economics

Fama Portfolio Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama

Fama Eugene F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426846, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
584 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innov...

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Nature

Our Oldest Task Making Sense of Our Place in Nature

Freyfogle Eric T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226326399, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"This is a book about nature and culture", Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure". Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking bac...

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Christianity

Poetic Relations Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation

Furey Constance M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226434155, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a...

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