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Thinking Through Methods A Social Science Primer

Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226431727, ISBN: HB: 9780226431697, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 2 tables

Sociological research is hard enough already – you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desp...

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Anthropology

Far Out Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal

Liechty Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226428949, ISBN: HB: 9780226428802, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and a repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, mountain climbers – diverse groups of people have traveled there over the y...

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Philosophy

Complete Tragedies, Volume 1 Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: HB: 9780226748238, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE-...

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Complete Tragedies, Volume 2 Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: HB: 9780226013602, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE-...

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Design by the Book Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu

Louis Francois

ISBN: PB: 9781941792100, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, January 2017
128 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 80 halftones

Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and transmitted illustrations. Among the most importa...

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Business & Economics

Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

Lee Benjamin, Martin Randy

ISBN: PB: 9780226392837, ISBN: HB: 9780226392660, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 6 line drawings

Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book...

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Political Science

Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse

Leifeld Philip

ISBN: PB: 9783593505701, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 100 tables

How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods...

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Data-Centric Biology A Philosophical Study

Leonelli Sabina

ISBN: PB: 9780226416472, ISBN: HB: 9780226416335, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approa...

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Buddhism

From Stone to Flesh A Short History of the Buddha

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226333236, ISBN: HB: 9780226493206, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
304 pp., 23x15 cm

We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings...

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Buddhism

Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226391236, ISBN: HB: 9780226493183, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Dona...

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