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Genetics

Philosophy

Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate

Evans John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...

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Political Science

Hyperpolitics An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts

Calise Mauro, Lowi Theodore J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226091020, ISBN: HB: 9780226091013, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics" is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline's most dis...

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Europe

Colonialism and Science Saint Domingue and the Old Regime

McClellan James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226514673, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables, 1 halftone

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active...

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America

Anthropology

Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America

Adams Gretchen A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005430, ISBN: HB: 9780226005416, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...

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Music

Culture Studies

Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music

Stokes Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones

At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...

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Psychology

Educating Intuition

Hogarth Robin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348629, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 7 tables, 3 halftones

In "Educating Intuition", Robin M. Hogarth offers the first comprehensive overview of what the science of psychology can tell us about intuition – where it comes from, how it works, whether we can trust it. He finds that intuition is a normal and imp...

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Business & Economics

Targeting Investments in Children Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited

Levine Phillip B., Zimmerman David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475813, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 tables, 19 line illus.

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects...

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Judaism

Sacred Attunement A Jewish Theology

Fishbane Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226251721, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
256 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Contemporary theology, and Jewish theology in particular, Michael Fishbane asserts, now lies fallow, beset by strong critiques from within and without. For Jewish reality, a coherent and wide-ranging response in thoroughly modern terms is needed".Sac...

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Performing Arts

Leading Roles 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781584659068, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not-for-profit arts organizations struggled to survive the recent economic recession. In this increasingly hardscrabble environment, it is absolutely imperative that the boards of these organizations function as energetically, creatively, and efficie...

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Poetry

Tourist in Hell

Wilner Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226900322, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
96 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and pr...

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