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Mathematics

Algorithmes

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866208, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2011
524 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is a French translation of seventeen papers by Donald Knuth on algorithms both in the field of analysis of algorithms and in the design of new algorithms. They cover fundamental concepts and techniques and numerous discrete problems such as...

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Cultural Studies

Oldest Cuisine in the World Cooking in Mesopotamia

Bottero Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226067346, ISBN: HB: 9780226067353, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
152 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottero presents the first extensive look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. Bottero's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and tab...

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Asia

History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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Africa

History

Africa as a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

Tilley Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780226803470, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 48 tables, 8 colour illus.

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods".Africa as a Living Laboratory" is a far-reachi...

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Poetry

Devotions

Smith Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226764351, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
104 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur....

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Education

Classrooms All Young Children Need Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

Cooper Patricia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115245, ISBN: HB: 9780226115238, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
248 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Childre...

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Political Science

Cultures of Border Control Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

Zaiotti Ruben

ISBN: PB: 9780226977874, ISBN: HB: 9780226977867, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 9 tables, 2 line illus.

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs. Set...

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Education

Wannabe U Inside the Corporate University

Tuchman Gaye

ISBN: PB: 9780226815305, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Based on years of observation at a large state university, "Wannabe U" tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such u...

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America

Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century

Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593393551, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2011
340 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 1 map, 3 figures, 15 halftones

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U. S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancem...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

Garb Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226282077, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, "Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah" explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion...

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