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America

Nature and Nurture of Love From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

Marga Vicedo

ISBN: PB: 9780226215136, ISBN: HB: 9780226020556, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones, 4 line illus.

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists – anything from the fear of romantic comm...

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Fiction

Cold Spell

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232426, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With precise and evocative prose, "Cold Spell" tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both. From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she...

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Anthropology

What Kinship Is-And Is Not

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780226214290, ISBN: HB: 9780226925127, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
120 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Ari...

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Gender Studies

Business of Sex

Murthy Laxmi, Seshu Saraswathi

ISBN: HB: 9789381017814, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2014
236 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, "The Business of Sex" corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and...

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Anthropology

General

What About Mozart? What About Murder? Reasoning From Cases

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226166490, ISBN: HB: 9780226166353, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end...

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Linguistics

Language and the Creative Mind

Dancygier Barbara, Borkent Mike, Hinnell Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781575866710, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2014
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and...

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Europe

Walter Ralegh's "History of the World" and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance

Popper Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226213965, ISBN: HB: 9780226675008, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 halftones

Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent the next seven years producing his massive "History of the World". Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books he was allowed...

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Jewish Studies

Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880-1918

Nemes Robert, Unowsky Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611685824, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This innovative collection of essays on the upsurge of antisemitism across Europe in the decades around 1900 shifts the focus away from intellectuals and well-known incidents to less-familiar events, actors, and locations, including smaller towns and...

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General

Health & Wellbeing

Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being

Stavrova Olga

ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm

Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...

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Reference

Digital Paper A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials

Abbott Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226167787, ISBN: HB: 9780226167640, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 figures

Today's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical a...

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