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Political Science

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

Niebuhr Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780226584003, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 20.5x13 cm

"The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness", first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy....

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Anthropology

Christianity

Inconstancy of the Indian Soul The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil

Castro Eduardo Viveiros

ISBN: PB: 9780984201013, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, September 2011
108 pp., 18x11.5 cm

In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to re...

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Anthropology

Cultural Transfers in Dispute Representations in Asia, Europe and the Arab World since the Middle Ages

Feuchter Jorg, Hoffmann Friedhelm, Yun Bee

ISBN: PB: 9783593394046, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2011
300 pp., 22x14 cm

Our conception of cultures and cultural change has altered dramatically in recent decades: no longer do we understand cultures as isolated units; rather, we see them as hybrid formations constantly engaged in a multidirectional process of exchange an...

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Evolution

Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Nunn Charles L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608990, ISBN: HB: 9780226608983, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 20 halftones, 111 line illus.

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found,...

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Poetry

Ice Floe II International Poetry of the Far North

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231481, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2011
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The long-awaited second volume of the newly revived "Ice Floe" series, "Ice Floe II" features new and exciting works of poetry from a vibrant and diverse group of writers from Alaska, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Iceland, and beyond. All work is presented...

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America

Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

Fischer Claude S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226251448, ISBN: HB: 9780226251431, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
528 pp., 23x15 cm

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People". But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radical...

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Literary Criticism

Forms of Attention Botticelli and Hamlet

Kermode Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780226431758, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
112 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic".Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the arti...

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Education

Law

Courts and Kids Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts

Rebell Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706177, ISBN: HB: 9780226706191, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in "...

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Military

Arc of War Origins, Escalation, and Transformation

Levy Jack S., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226476292, ISBN: HB: 9780226476285, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 tables, 11 line illus.

In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups,...

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Earth Sciences

History

Osiris, Volume 26 Klima

Fleming James Rodger, Jankovic Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780226253374, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

"Climate is a rather elusive entity", wrote Helmut Landsberg in 1950 as he sorted out some twenty or so competing definitions. This volume of "Osiris" explores the complexities in understanding what climate means from a historical perspective. The vo...

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