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Photography

Albino

Palacios Ana

ISBN: HB: 9788494423413, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
108 pp., 27.9x31.1 cm, 82 colour plates

In "Albino", photojournalist Ana Palacios takes us inside a shelter for people with albinism and reveals what daily life is like for those living with the genetic condition in Tanzania. As Palacios documents, widespread ignorance of the causes of alb...

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Business & Economics

Noise Living and Trading in Electronic Finance

Preda Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226427485, ISBN: HB: 9780226427348, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though – the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make t...

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Hinduism

Hindu Tantric World An Overview

Padoux Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780226424095, ISBN: HB: 9780226423937, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Tantra occupies a unique position in Western understandings of Hindu spirituality. Its carnal dimension has made its name instantly recognizable, but this popular fascination with sex has obscured its philosophical depth and ritual practices, to say...

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Mathematics

Inferences with Ignorance Logics of Questions

Pelis Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024631813, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
100 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Inferences with Ignorance" focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as...

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Literary Criticism

Placing John Haines

Perrin Warren James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...

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Philosophy

Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education"

Phillips D. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226408378, ISBN: HB: 9780226408231, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey's magnum opus, "Democracy and Education". Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and – dare we say it – a little dry. In this charming a...

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Biography & Memoires

Secret Life of a Black Aspie A Memoir

Prahlad Anand

ISBN: PB: 9781602233218, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story. For the first four years of his life, Prahlad didn't speak. But his silence didn't stop...

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Business & Economics

Leading with the Brain The 7 Neurobiological Factors to Boost Employee Satisfaction and Business Results

Purps-Pardigol Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593506685, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
207 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

How do business leaders inspire their employees so deeply that employees strive to surpass their own best work, helping managers and their staff to achieve mutual success? Sebastian Purps-Pardigol has figured it out – and the answer starts with the b...

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Fiction

We Were a Handful

Polacek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...

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Political Science

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

Pram Gad Ulrik

ISBN: PB: 9788763545020, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, January 2017
148 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 3 halftones, 5 figures

Though it's many miles away from tiny Denmark, Greenland is administered as an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. It's a relationship that at first glance appears unusual, and, as Ulrik Pram Gad shows, that relationship is quietly predicated...

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