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America

American Indians Fourth Edition

Hagan William T., Cobb Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226312392, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 20 halftones

William Hagan's classic "American Indians" has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arri...

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Anthropology

Lifeworlds Essays in Existential Anthropology

Jackson Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226923659, ISBN: HB: 9780226923642, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Michael Jackson's "Lifeworlds" is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and exa...

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Ecology

Evolution

Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

Brodie Jedediah F., Post Eric S., Doak Daniel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074634, ISBN: HB: 9780226074627, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 35 halftones, 37 line illus.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife p...

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Political Science

Living Legislation Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Law Making

Jenkins Jeffery A., Patashnik Eric M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226396453, ISBN: HB: 9780226396446, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 16 line illus.

Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is...

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America

Fur Farms of Alaska Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede

Crawford Isto Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231719, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2012
230 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 50 halftones

After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being s...

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General

Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

Pierre Jemima

ISBN: PB: 9780226923031, ISBN: HB: 9780226923024, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking "The Predicament of Blackness" is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa...

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Women Studies

Law

Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions

Fishbayn Joffe Lisa, Neil Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611683264, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religiou...

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Culture Studies

General

SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...

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Reference

What Editors Want An Author's Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing

Benson Philippa J., Silver Susan C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226043142, ISBN: HB: 9780226043135, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 musical examples, 4 tables, 14 halftones, 3 line illus.

Research publications have always been key to building a successful career in science, yet little if any formal guidance is offered to young scientists on how to get research papers peer reviewed, accepted, and published by leading scientific journal...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and Diaspora Nationalism Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States

Rabinovitch Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781584657620, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the...

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