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Anthropology

Beyond Surgery Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital

Hannig Anita

ISBN: PB: 9780226457291, ISBN: HB: 9780226457154, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Over the past few decades, maternal childbirth injuries have become a potent symbol of Western biomedical intervention in Africa, affecting over one million women across the global south. Western-funded hospitals have sprung up, offering surgical sut...

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Literary Criticism

Unthought The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious

Hayles Katherine N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226447889, ISBN: HB: 9780226447742, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In "Unthought", she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking – how we use cognitive processes that are inacc...

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Business & Economics

Philosophy

Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics

Heath Eugene, Kaldis Byron

ISBN: PB: 9780226443850, ISBN: HB: 9780226443713, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
464 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how gove...

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General

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Hyra Derek S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226449531, ISBN: HB: 9780226449364, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 6 line drawings, 17 tables

For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Eclipse of Action Tragedy and Political Economy

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226433653, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the...

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Ecology

Evolution

Messages from Islands A Global Biodiversity Tour

Hanski Ilkka

ISBN: PB: 9780226406442, ISBN: HB: 9780226406305, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 2 tables

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, "Messages from Islands" is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands...

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History

Territories of Science and Religion

Harrison Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226478982, ISBN: HB: 9780226184487, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and relig...

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Ecology

Imagining Extinction The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

Heise Ursula K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226358161, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 13 halftones, 2 tables

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim – the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention th...

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America

Demolition Means Progress Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis

Highsmith Andrew R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419558, ISBN: HB: 9780226050058, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
398 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 17 maps, 3 tables

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress", suggesting that the struggling city could no...

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Business & Economics

Conceptualizing Capitalism Institutions, Evolution, Future

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419695, ISBN: HB: 9780226168005, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 5 tables

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual...

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