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Tamil Brahmans The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

Fuller C. J., Narasimhan Haripriya

ISBN: PB: 9780226152745, ISBN: HB: 9780226152608, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 tables

A cruise along the streets of Chennai – or Silicon Valley – filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic...

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Political Science

Lies, Passions, and Illusions The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Furet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780226114491, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twent...

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Business & Economics

Foundations of Macroecology Classic Papers with Commentaries

Smith Felisa A., Gittleman John L., Brown James H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115474, ISBN: HB: 9780226115337, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
824 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 1 halftone, 252 line drawings, 90 tables

Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ec...

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History

Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Music

Triumph of Pleasure Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

Cowart Georgia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211558, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 16 musical examples, 3 tables

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet...

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America

Kiska The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Coyle Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232372, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour plates, 77 halftones

Alaska's windswept Aleutian Island chain arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska Island, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. Few have the opportu...

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Culture Studies

Packaged Pleasures How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

Cross Gary S., Proctor Robert N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226121277, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table

From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other cons...

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Sea Life

Nature

Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Gershwin Lisa-ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226213033, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
456 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 16 colour illus.

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life – growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick enviro...

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Law

Kafka's Law "The Trial" and American Criminal Justice

Burns Robert P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226167473, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Trial" is actually closer to reality than fantasy as far as the client's perception of the system. It's supposed to be a fantastic allegory, but it's reality. It's very important that lawyers read it and understand this".Justice" Anthony Kennedy...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Toward a Political History of Madness

Murat Laure

ISBN: HB: 9780226025735, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

"The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon" is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day...

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