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Education

Agile Faculty Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching

Pope-Ruark Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780226463155, ISBN: HB: 9780226463018, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 13 line drawings, 21 tables

Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techni...

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Linguistics

Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research

Pye Clifton

ISBN: PB: 9780226539614, ISBN: HB: 9780226481289, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 1 line drawing, 90 tables

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues....

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Buddhism

Anthropology

Dream Trippers Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality

Palmer David A., Siegler Elijah

ISBN: PB: 9780226484846, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table

Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western "alternative" spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China. "Dream Tri...

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Anthropology

Peru: Medio Putumayo-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 28

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9780982841969, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, October 2017
522 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates, 14 halftones, 12 maps

In February 2016, a multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities of a remote area in northern Amazonian Peru, along the Putumayo, Algodon, and Mutun river...

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Landscape Architecture

Prague Gardens and Parks

Pacakova-Hostalkova Bozena

ISBN: PB: 9788024634227, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
260 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 145 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The design of Prague's gardens and parks – especially the green spaces of its palaces, castles, and monastery complexes, both private and public – is inseparable from the millennium-long e...

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Poetry

Ends of the Earth Poems

Partridge Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781602233324, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2017
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ends of the Earth" uses the landscape of Alaska as a testing ground for love and elegy. It is a poetry collection that contains both lyric responses to the urban Alaska environment and extended sequences that cycle between autobiography, mythic allu...

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Computer Science & Internet

Computer Game Worlds

Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783035800135, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
350 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 180 halftones

Computer games have become ubiquitous in today's society. Many scholars have speculated on the reasons for their massive success. Yet we haven't considered the most basic questions: Why do computer games exist? What specific circumstances led to the...

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General

Sociology of Howard S. Becker Theory with a Wide Horizon

Pessin Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226362854, ISBN: HB: 9780226362717, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents – in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to pathbreaking studies of devian...

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Children's Books

Fiction

"Catarina the Wise" and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales

Pitre Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780226462790, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again... So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may...

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Surgery

Face/On Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other

Pearl Sharrona

ISBN: PB: 9780226461366, ISBN: HB: 9780226461229, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever – or replaced? In "Face/On", Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face-and the changing stakes for the face – in both...

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