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Supreme Court Review 2015

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226392219, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions".The Supreme Court Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Su...

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Music

Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism

Loughridge Deirdre

ISBN: HB: 9780226337098, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 68 musical examples, 4 tables

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, as audiences started to revel in the pure sounds of the...

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Women Studies

Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica

Rivers-Moore Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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Mathematics

Quantifying Life A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology

Kondrashov Dmitry A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226371764, ISBN: HB: 9780226371627, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones

Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche of data, co...

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Buddhism

Birth of Insight Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

Braun Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226418575, ISBN: HB: 9780226000800, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Professor Kant's Incredible Day

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783037345955, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Anthropology

Why We Play An Anthropological Study

Hamayon Roberte

ISBN: PB: 9780986132568, University of Chicago Press, HAU, August 2016
370 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined en...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Living Nature

Kratochvil Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024631318, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Philosophy of Living Nature" focuses on the approach of the Western philosophical tradition to physis, or nature. Zdenek Kratochvil reveals, on a philosophical level, the roots of tod...

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Children's Books

Little Whale A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe

Peratrovich Roy A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232952, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 line illus., 1 map

Keet, a ten-year-old Tlingit Indian boy, stows away for a voyage on his father's canoe... and soon finds himself caught in the middle of a wild seastorm. The story carries him far from his home village, and when he makes land, he winds up right in th...

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