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Nature

Humboldt Alexander, Bonpland Aime

ISBN: PB: 9780226054735, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
296 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 7 tables, poster inside book, 9 halftones

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth centu...

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Culture Studies

Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods Varieties of Cultural Appropriation (1850-1950)

Huck Christian, Bauernschmidt Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593397627, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
220 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Looking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies – heavily influenced by both economics and sociology – as a lens through which to view the paradigm of transcultural consumption. The editors pres...

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Education

Experiencing Education: 1896-2012 Second Edition

Harms William

ISBN: PB: 9781467530590, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
181 pp., 25x17.8 cm, throughout illus.

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools were founded in 1896 by John Dewey as a way to apply and test his groundbreaking theories of education. Now, more than a century later, Dewey's approach to education is emulated the world over, and the Lab...

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Computer Science & Internet

Studying Social Networks A Guide to Empirical Research

Hennig Marina, Brandes Ulrik, PfefferJurgen, Mergel Ines

ISBN: PB: 9783593397634, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
220 pp., 21.5x14 cm

"Studying Social Networks" provides a concise, comprehensive introduction to the process of empirical network research. Students and practitioners new to social research will find easily understandable learning goals, numerous examples, and helpful e...

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Education

Lives in Science How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

Hermanowicz Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005645, ISBN: HB: 9780226327617, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 tables, 1 line illus.

hat can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different st...

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Political Science

Pastoral in Palestine

Hertz Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780984201037, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2013
122 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 78 colour illus.

For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does little to take into account the myriad motivations th...

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America

Reconstruction after the Civil War Third Edition

Hope Franklin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226923376, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 2 tables, 11 halftones

"Reconstruction after the Civil War" explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and controversial scholarship, John Hope Franklin uses his astute insight and careful research to provide an ac...

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America

American Indians Fourth Edition

Hagan William T., Cobb Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226312392, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 20 halftones

William Hagan's classic "American Indians" has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arri...

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General

Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Business & Economics

From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities An Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226922713, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are...

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