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Unwanted Child The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany

Harrington Joel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102054, ISBN: HB: 9780226317274, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones, 9 line drawings

The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society".The Unwanted Child" skill...

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Evolution

Nature

In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences

Craver Carl F., Darden Lindley

ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...

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Philosophy

Thinking about Ordinary Things A Short Invitation to Philosophy

Sokol Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024622293, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this compact yet informative book, former dissident, occasional politician, software developer, and noted Czech philosopher, Jan Sokol offers a way to teach young radical students about...

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Reference

From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition

Germano William

ISBN: PB: 9780226062044, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake".You know something!" I would say if it could hear me".Now tell it to us in language we can understand!" Since its publication in 2005...

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Ecology

Consumed Food for a Finite Planet

Elton Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226093628, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same tim...

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Ancient World

Savage Energies Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Burkert Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226100432, ISBN: HB: 9780226080857, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Harlem The Unmaking of a Ghetto

Vergara Camilo Jose

ISBN: HB: 9780226853369, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
269 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates

For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture – but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, viole...

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Performing Arts

Bigger, Brighter, Louder 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics

Jones Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226059266, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

The first known "Chicago Tribune" theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements – one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load...

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World

Literary Criticism

Trade and Romance

Murrin Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226071572, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 table

In "Trade and Romance", Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows...

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Music

More Important Than the Music A History of Jazz Discography

Epperson Bruce D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226067537, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Today, jazz is considered high art, America's national music, and the catalog of its recordings – its discography – is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the inte...

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