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Law

Restitution Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment

Farnsworth Ward

ISBN: PB: 9780226144160, ISBN: HB: 9780226144023, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a sharehold...

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General

Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery

DeGloma Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...

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America

Necessary Evil Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982812, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 maps

From the Mormon Wars to the Border Wars to gangs of Bald Knobbers and Bushwhackers, Missouri's reign of vigilante justice during the nineteenth century is unparalleled by any other state in the nation. Situated as the Gateway to the West, Missouri ex...

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Anthropology

Behold the Black Caiman A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

Bessire Lucas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175577, ISBN: HB: 9780226140896, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In 2004, one of the world's last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers' bulldozers. "Behold the Black Caiman" is Lucas Bessire's intimate chronicle...

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Literary Criticism

Galateo Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior

Della Casa Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9780226212197, ISBN: HB: 9780226010977, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

"Since it is the case that you are now just beginning that journey that I have for the most part as you see completed, that is, the one through mortal life, and loving you so very much as I do, I have proposed to myself – as one who has been many pla...

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Law

Judicial Politics in Polarized Times

Keck Thomas M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226182414, ISBN: HB: 9780226182384, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables

When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, some saw the decision as a textbook example of neutral judicial decision making, noting that a Republican Chief Justice joined the Court's Democratic appointees to uphold most provisions of the A...

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Fiction

No Ghosts in This City And Other Short Stories

Goswami Uddipana

ISBN: PB: 9789383074075, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm

The powerful short stories in this collection are set against – and frequently driven by – the picturesque yet often violent backdrop of Assam, a province in India's northeast. In one, a young man attempts to escape the confines of middle-class aspir...

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Anthropology

Yaya's Story The Quest for Well-Being in the World

Stoller Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226178820, ISBN: HB: 9780226178790, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 17 halftones

Yaya's Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller – its author – an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, la...

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Mammals

Bats A World of Science and Mystery

Fenton M. Brock, Simmons Nancy B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065120, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 342 colour plates, 29 line drawings

There are more than 1,300 species of bats – or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night" consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat se...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Indian Women in the House of Fiction

Chanda Geetanjali Singh

ISBN: PB: 9789383074730, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
348 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

In her detailed readings of a wide range of Indian writers – including Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Nair, Jhumpa Lahiri and many others – Geetanjali Singh Chanda focuses on domestic spaces in women's fiction. The house is not merely a backdro...

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