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Travel
Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-1959
Bull Colin
ISBN: PB: 9781602230712, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
267 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 2 graphs, 81 colour illus.
In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first of what has become...
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Anthropology
Sea Woman Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic
Laugrand Frederic, Oosten Jarich
ISBN: PB: 9781602230118, ISBN: HB: 9781602230262, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
160 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.
This study offers an in-depth examination of the role of shamanism in modern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans derived their healing skills and power over natural elements from their ability to communicate with supernatural beings, such as Sedna t...
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Nature
Ecuador Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual
Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., del Campo Alvaro, Stotz Douglas F., Moskovits Debra K., Caceres Segundo Fuentes, Tapia Byron Coronel, Anderson Elizabeth P.
ISBN: PB: 9780914868736, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2010
318 pp., 27.3x20.7 cm, 4 maps, 8 graphs, 12 tables, 20 colour illus.
The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, range-restricted flora and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In October 2008 scienti...
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Film Studies
Adventure of the Real Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema
Henley Paul
ISBN: PB: 9780226327150, ISBN: HB: 9780226327143, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
536 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 2 tables, 161 halftones
Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fictional, and exerted an i...
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Philosophy
Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader
Deely John
ISBN: PB: 9781589661486, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2010
465 pp., 23x15 cm
"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely – a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a prag...
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Gay and Lesbian Studies
Gay Shame
Halperin David M., Traub Valerie
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780226314389, University of Chicago Press, January 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones
Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, "gay pride" has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political force behind the emergence of the field of lesbian and gay studies. But has something been lost, forgotten, or buried beneath the...
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Business & Economics
Ensuring Corporate Misconduct How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation
Baker Tom, Griffith Sean J.
ISBN: HB: 9780226035154, University of Chicago Press, January 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line illus.
Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illega...
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