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King Salmon Journey

Miller Debbie S., Eiler John H.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232310, ISBN: HB: 9781602232303, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Two thousand miles is a staggering distance for any kind of journey. But imagine making it not by car or even foot – but by fin. That's what faces Chinook, a female king salmon, as she takes a dramatic trip to safely deliver her eggs. From the Bering...

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Philosophy

(K)information Gamete Donation and Kinship Knowledge in Germany and Britain

Klotz Maren

ISBN: PB: 9783593500676, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
383 pp., 22x13.9 cm

Openness about sperm and egg donation and the regulation of donor anonymity or non-anonymity are new phenomena. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? And how does this kno...

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Psychology

Restoration of the Self

Kohut Heinz

ISBN: PB: 9780226450131, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called "the limits of classical analytic theory" and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a "psychology of the self" as a theory...

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Business & Economics

Economic Regulation and Its Reform What Have We Learned?

Rose Nancy L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226138022, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
704 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 line drawings, 30 tables

The past thirty years have witnessed a transformation of government economic intervention in broad segments of industry throughout the world. Many industries historically subject to economic price and entry controls have been largely deregulated, inc...

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History

Baroque Science

Gal Ofer, Chen-Morris Raz

ISBN: PB: 9780226212982, ISBN: HB: 9780226923987, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

In "Baroque Science", Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, they study the paradoxes and anxieties that...

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Music

Anthropology

Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia

Jankowsky Richard C.

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226392196, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 7 tables, 7 halftones, 12 line illus.

In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an ela...

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Business & Economics

Risk Topography Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling

Brunnermeier Markus, Krishnamurthy Arvind

ISBN: HB: 9780226077734, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 line drawings, 14 tables

The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models i...

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Political Science

Criminology

Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Burch Traci

ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables

The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...

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Travel

Northern Exposures An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images

Waterman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231931, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
250 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 96 colour illus.

North of the sixtieth parallel parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this spec...

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Literary Criticism

Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles

Seale David

ISBN: PB: 9780226181745, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
270 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this study, David Seale argues that Sophocles's use of stagecraft, which has thus far received little attention, was as sophisticated as that of Aeschylus or Euripides. His discussions of the physical and visual elements of Sophocles's seven plays...

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