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Law

Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Johns Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9780226401195, ISBN: HB: 9780226401188, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
640 pp., 22.4x15.5 cm, 40 halftones

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of Ameri...

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Ancient World

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Gere Cathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226289540, ISBN: HB: 9780226289533, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With "K...

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Fiction

Backflash A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770604, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
304 pp., 20x13 cm

After the publication of "Butcher's Moon" in 1974, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone". And readers waited. But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker's as bad...

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Fiction

Butcher's Moon A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770956, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
320 pp., 20x13 cm

The sixteenth Parker novel, "Butcher's Moon" is more than twice as long most of the master heister's adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town where h...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Christianity

Recruiting Young Love How Christians Talk about Homosexuality

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226410449, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 22.9x15.7 cm

In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides – from...

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Fiction

Comeback A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770581, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
304 pp., 20x13 cm

After the bloodbath of "Butcher's Moon", the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone". And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed awa...

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History

Philosophy

Exploring the Scientific Method Cases and Questions

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226294834, ISBN: HB: 9780226294810, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
424 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 4 tables

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

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Anthropology

Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

Lave Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226470726, ISBN: HB: 9780226470719, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
216 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm, 2 maps, 3 line drawings, 4 tables, 5 halftones

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides bot...

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America

Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable American Reburials

Kammen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226423302, ISBN: HB: 9780226423296, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grav...

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Criminology

Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Preib Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226679822, ISBN: HB: 9780226679808, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
176 pp., 21.3x14 cm

Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department – a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the Ci...

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