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Education

These Kids Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School

Nygreen Kysa

ISBN: PB: 9780226031569, ISBN: HB: 9780226031422, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 6 tables

Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In "These Kids", Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering...

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Film Studies

Spectacles of Blood A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films

Nandi Swaralipi, Chatterjee Esha

ISBN: HB: 9789381017159, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 22.8x14 cm

This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showing how the cinema challenges, normalizes, or contests these major issues. Taking an interdisciplinary and comparative...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Fabulous Feminist A Suniti Namjoshi Reader

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789381017333, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2013
252 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"The Fabulous Feminist" brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, "Feminist Fables", and including excerpts from "Saint Suniti and...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Linguistics

Identity, Language, and Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry

Newen Albert, van Riel Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9781575866420, ISBN: HB: 9781575866437, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2012
161 pp., 23x15 cm

As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal identity, and consciousness. Looking particularly at th...

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Anthropology

General

Modernity Bluff Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire

Newell Sasha

ISBN: PB: 9780226575209, ISBN: HB: 9780226575193, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand na...

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Computer Science & Internet

Cyberscience 2.0 Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks

Nentwich Michael, Konig Rene

ISBN: PB: 9783593395180, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2012
210 pp., 22x14 cm

At the start of the twenty-first century, the Internet was already perceived to have fundamentally changed the landscape for research. With its opportunities for digital networking, novel publication schemes, and new communication formats, the web wa...

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Anthropology

Reference

Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov

Narayan Kirin

ISBN: PB: 9780226568195, ISBN: HB: 9780226568188, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
168 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer – but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In "Alive in the Writing" – an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis – anthropologist an...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine

Naskrecki Piotr

ISBN: HB: 9780226568706, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x23 cm, 414 colour illus.

On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their...

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Nature

America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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