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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Fertility and Jewish Law Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature

Irshai Ronit

ISBN: HB: 9781611682397, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2012
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai exami...

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Anthropology

America

Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America

Safier Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226733623, ISBN: HB: 9780226733555, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equ...

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Business & Economics

Solidarity in Strategy Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations

Spillman Lyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226769578, ISBN: HB: 9780226769561, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables

Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually...

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General

Law

Not Just Roommates Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

Pleck Elizabeth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671048, ISBN: HB: 9780226671031, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 15 halftones

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In "Not Just Roommates", Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed...

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Political Science

Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in America

Glickman Lawrence B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226298672, ISBN: HB: 9780226298658, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 35 halftones

A definitive history of consumer activism, "Buying Power" traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation's founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott e...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Walter Benjamin An Introduction to His Work and Thought

Steiner Uwe

ISBN: PB: 9780226772226, ISBN: HB: 9780226772219, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm

Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intri...

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Anthropology

General

Modernity Bluff Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire

Newell Sasha

ISBN: PB: 9780226575209, ISBN: HB: 9780226575193, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand na...

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Ecology

Mammals

Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals

McNab Brian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...

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Anthropology

Truth in Motion The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

Holbraad Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226349213, ISBN: HB: 9780226349206, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones, 6 line illus.

Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barriosof Havana among practitioners of Ifa, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, "Truth in Motion" reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly d...

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America

Travel

Finding the Arctic History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay

Sturm Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781602231634, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 maps, 193 colour illus.

The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In "Finding the Arctic", the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects...

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