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Criminology

Truth Machine The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

Lynch Michael, Cole Simon A., McNally Ruth, Jordan Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226498072, ISBN: HB: 9780226498065, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
416 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

DNA profiling – commonly known as DNA fingerprinting – is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable "truth machine" that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. Bu...

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Anthropology

Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

Lave Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226470726, ISBN: HB: 9780226470719, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
216 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm, 2 maps, 3 line drawings, 4 tables, 5 halftones

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides bot...

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Law

Theory of Rules

Llewellyn Karl N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487953, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
168 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn's thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerou...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2010 Volume 11

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473383, ISBN: HB: 9780226473376, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Innovation Policy and the Economy" series provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. Issues covered in Volume 11 are an exploration of innovation challenges in the health care...

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Media Studies

Freudian Robot Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious

Liu Lydia H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226486833, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 26 halftones

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its...

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Astronomy

Geographies of Mars Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet

Lane K. Maria D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226470788, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 39 halftones

One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet – a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long sin...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Nature's Palette The Science of Plant Color

Lee David

ISBN: PB: 9780226470535, ISBN: HB: 9780226470528, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
426 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings, 438 colour illus.

Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a spec...

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History of Art

Tragic Muse Art and Emotion, 1700-1900

Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573497, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2010
128 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 75 colour illus.

Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. And while these themes have an artistic history dating ba...

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Music

Performing Arts

Unsettling Opera Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

Levin David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226475233, ISBN: HB: 9780226475226, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 musical examples, 26 halftones

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work...

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Jewish Studies

Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

Lieberman Julia R.

ISBN: PB: 9781584659570, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2010
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history" – the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire as well as in communities in Western Europe. At the height of its power...

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