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Jewish Studies

California Jews

Kahn Ava F., Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781611682199, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The nation's thirty-first state emerged early as one of its most diverse as people immigrated to the west. California's indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by the arrival of gold miners from every corner of t...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Lovecraft Amy Lauren, Eicken Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...

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Architecture

Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture

Siry Joseph M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226761404, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
736 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 295 halftones, 10 colour illus.

In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright's last completed project...

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Political Science

Africa

I Say to You Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya

Lynch Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226498058, ISBN: HB: 9780226498041, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 14 tables

In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal pe...

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Literary Criticism

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction

Gardner John

ISBN: PB: 9780226283289, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
218 pp., 20.5x14 cm

The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet J...

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Buddhism

Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Rowe Mark Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226730158, ISBN: HB: 9780226730134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 halftones, 2 line illus.

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services – a base now...

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Culture Studies

Technology & Engineering

Autophobia Love and Hate in the Automotive Age

Ladd Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226467290, ISBN: HB: 9780226467412, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
236 pp., 23x15 cm

Cars are the scourge of civilization, responsible for everything from suburban sprawl and urban decay to environmental devastation and rampant climate change – not to mention our slavish dependence on foreign oil from dubious sources abroad. Add the...

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Anthropology

Reference

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes Second Edition

Emerson Robert M., Fretz Rachel I., Shaw Linda L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226206837, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes", Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is ofte...

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Education

General

Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite

Beasley Maya A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine

Naskrecki Piotr

ISBN: HB: 9780226568706, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x23 cm, 414 colour illus.

On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their...

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