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Nature

Sea Life

Underwater Eden Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

Stone Gregory S., Obura David

ISBN: HB: 9780226775609, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
184 pp., 25x20 cm, 2 tables, 91 colour illus.

"It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago". That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Paci...

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General

Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Dune's Twisted Edge Journeys in the Levant

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: HB: 9780226923673, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones, 9 line illus.

"How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures... trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once kno...

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Education

Gender Studies

Sex Education Debates

Kendall Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922287, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 6 tables

Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for...

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General

Jewish Studies

Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State Israel's Civil War

Weiss Susan M., Gross-Horowitz Netty C.

ISBN: HB: 9781611683639, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of...

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Photography

Media Studies

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage

Zervigon Andres Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226981772, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 134 halftones, 9 colour illus.

Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he assembled images that...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Pure Element of Time

Be'er Haim

ISBN: PB: 9781611684315, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published in 1998 as Havalim, "The Pure Element of Time" is a rich and evocative autobiographical novel about a writer's development. With his keen eye and opulent writing style, Haim Be'er turns the story of his childhood and maturity into a complex...

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Biography & Memoires

Music

Robert Schumann The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226284699, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line illus.

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury...

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America

Culture Studies

Stories of Our Collection Stories of Our Collection

ISBN: HB: 9780911028270, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
200 pp., 30x23 cm, colour throughout illus.

To mark its 125th anniversary, the Newberry has assembled one hundred and twenty-five of its most significant objects in one beautifully illustrated volume. Arranged in order to tell both the story of the library as an institution and its collecting...

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Philosophy

Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

Jullien Francois

ISBN: PB: 9780226415314, ISBN: HB: 9780226415307, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 colour illus.

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, "The Great Image Has No Form" explores the "nonobj...

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