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Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
ISBN: PB: 9780226556598, ISBN: HB: 9780226556451, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In "The Human B...
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Being and Hearing Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu
ISBN: PB: 9780999157039, University of Chicago Press, HAU, August 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on three years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, "Being and Hearing" shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shape...
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Across the Bridge Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
ISBN: PB: 9780226403052, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 line drawings
Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms....
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After They Closed the Gates Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965
ISBN: PB: 9780226565224, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws wer...
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Truth-Spots How Places Make People Believe
ISBN: HB: 9780226561950, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm
We may not realize it, but truth and place are inextricably linked. For ancient Greeks, temples and statues clustered on the side of Mount Parnassus affirmed their belief that predictions from the oracle at Delphi were accurate. The trust we have in...
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History of German Jewish Bible Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780226477725, ISBN: HB: 9780226477695, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational...
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Women Working Longer Increased Employment at Older Ages
ISBN: HB: 9780226532509, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 line drawings, 70 tables
Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this...
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Animal Intimacies Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas
ISBN: PB: 9780226559988, ISBN: HB: 9780226559841, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
What does ­it mean to live and die in relation to other animals?   "Animal Intimacies" posits this central question alongside the intimate – and intense – moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human...
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Inadvertent Images A History of Photographic Apparitions
ISBN: HB: 9780226471877, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 18 colour plates, 58 halftones
As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how...
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Price of Prestige Conspicuous Consumption in International Relations
ISBN: HB: 9780226433202, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
If wars are costly and risky to both sides, why do they occur? Why engage in an arms race when it's clear that increasing one's own defense expenditures will only trigger a similar reaction by the other side, leaving both countries just as insecure –...
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