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Fire under the Ashes An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

Donoghue John

ISBN: HB: 9780226157658, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

In "Fire under the Ashes", John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of se...

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Political Science

Democracy against Development Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

Witsoe Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226063478, ISBN: HB: 9780226063164, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 8 tables

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and...

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Other

Science from Sight to Insight How Scientists Illustrate Meaning

Gross Alan G., Harmon Joseph E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226068480, ISBN: HB: 9780226068206, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones, 46 line drawings

John Dalton's molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick's double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world – and the key concepts that explain it – is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images....

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Europe

Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800 A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes

Cochrane Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226111513, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map

The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impre...

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Africa

General

Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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Biography & Memoires

Kurt Wolff A Portrait in Essays and Letters

Wolff Kurt

ISBN: PB: 9780226104805, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 figures

Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two conti...

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Psychology

Agewise Fighting the New Ageism in America

Gullette Margaret Morganroth

ISBN: PB: 9780226101866, ISBN: HB: 9780226310732, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
304 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 2 halftones

Let's face it: almost everyone fears growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our health, our jobs, our self-esteem – and being supplanted in work and love by younger people. It feels like the natural, inevitable consequence of the passing yea...

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Education

Toxic Schools High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

Paulle Bowen

ISBN: PB: 9780226066417, ISBN: HB: 9780226066387, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest...

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Gender Studies

Education

Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools

Rosenfeld Gorsetman Chaya, Maryles Sztokman Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...

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Sea Life

Sharks and People Exploring Our Relationship with the Most Feared Fish in the Sea

Peschak Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226047898, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 188 colour plates

At once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults alike stand awed before aquarium shark tanks, fascinated by the giant teeth and unnerving eyes. And no swim in the ocean is undertaken...

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