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Pup and Pokey

Kantner Seth

ISBN: PB: 9781602232419, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
48 pp., 21.6x17.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are unlikely allies in this tale of friendship set on Alaska's tundra. The two grow up as neighbors, but only through helping each other escape from a trapper do they learn what it means truly to b...

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Gender Studies

Not Tonight Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health

Kempner Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226179155, ISBN: HB: 9780226179018, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Pain. Vomiting. Hours and days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans and costs the US economy at least $32 billion per year. Nevertheless, it is frequent...

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Architecture

Polonica

House as Open Form: The Hansens' Summer Residence in Szumin Dom jako Forma Otwarta. Szumin Hansenow

Kedziorek Aleksandra, Springer Filip, Smaga Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788364177149, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2014
200 pp., 27.1x19.8 cm, 120 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! This beautifully illustrated volume offers a photographic tour of the iconic house of Polish architect couple: Oskar Hansen, member of Team 10, and his wife, Zofia. Located in Szumin in central Poland and designed in 1968, t...

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Performing Arts

Literary Criticism

Humoring the Body Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

Kern Paster Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226213828, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism – blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm – early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In "Humoring the Body", Gail K...

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Philosophy

(K)information Gamete Donation and Kinship Knowledge in Germany and Britain

Klotz Maren

ISBN: PB: 9783593500676, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
383 pp., 22x13.9 cm

Openness about sperm and egg donation and the regulation of donor anonymity or non-anonymity are new phenomena. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? And how does this kno...

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Psychology

Restoration of the Self

Kohut Heinz

ISBN: PB: 9780226450131, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called "the limits of classical analytic theory" and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a "psychology of the self" as a theory...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism On Open Form Architecture, Art and Didactics

Kedziorek Aleksandra, Ronduda Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364177057, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
350 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 100 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Han...

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Political Science

Good Project Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason

Krause Monika

ISBN: PB: 9780226131368, ISBN: HB: 9780226131221, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 2 tables

NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsu...

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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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Other

Asia

Religion in China and Its Modern Fate

Katz Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611685435, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites t...

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