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Evolution

Anthropology

Synthetic How Life Got Made

Roosth Sophia

ISBN: PB: 9780226440460, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation....

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General

Intersectional Inequality Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty

Ragin Charles C., Fiss Peer C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226414409, ISBN: HB: 9780226414379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 46 tables

For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Ragin has developed Qualitative Comparative Analysis and related set-analytic techniques as a means of bridging qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin uses these impressi...

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Architecture

Building Histories The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi

Rajagopalan Mrinalini

ISBN: HB: 9780226283470, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 51 halftones, 1 table

"Building Histories" offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi – the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex – tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinali...

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America

General

Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Reid Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780226409214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and ma...

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Technology & Engineering

Aerial Crossroads of America St. Louis's Lambert Airport

Rust Daniel L.

ISBN: HB: 9781883982898, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, February 2017
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 178 halftones

The history of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is the story of American aviation. Everything that has taken place on the airport's footprint – from Lindbergh to American Airlines, jet airliners to space travel – constitutes a microcosm of the...

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America

Evangelical Gotham Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

Roberts Kyle B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226388144, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 7 maps, 8 tables

At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religi...

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Europe

Sentimental Savants Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France

Roberts Meghan K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226384115, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Though the public may retain a hoary image of the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation, scholars discarded it long ago. In reality, the families of scientists and philosophers in the Enlightenment played a substant...

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Earth Sciences

Earth's Deep History How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421971, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones, 5 line drawings

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how wa...

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Evolution

Chance in Evolution

Ramsey Grant, Pence Charles H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226401881, ISBN: HB: 9780226401744, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 5 line drawings

Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Ryholt Kim, Barjamovic Gojko

ISBN: HB: 9788763543729, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
357 pp., 23.5x14 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones, 20 tables

The term "canonicity" implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. From the very earliest days of writing, text...

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