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Jewish Studies

Summoned Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood

Tavory Iddo

ISBN: PB: 9780226322056, ISBN: HB: 9780226321868, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 maps

On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work "Jewish jobs" – teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabb...

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Japanese

Linguistics

Readings in Japanese Natural Language Processing

Bond Francis

ISBN: PB: 9781575867533, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2016
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Readings in Japanese Natural Language Processing" surveys a wide range of texts that explore Japanese morphology and syntactic analysis, discourse, and natural language process applications. Presenting such techniques in a manner accessible to those...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Idol Structures Sculptures and Photographs by Matt Siber

Siber Matt, Raskin David, Harris Gregory J.

ISBN: PB: 9780985096014, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, March 2016
50 pp., 22.8x30.5 cm, 20 colour plates

"Idol Structures" accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape....

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History

Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at Fifty Reflections on a Science Classic

Richards Robert J., Daston Lorraine

ISBN: PB: 9780226317205, ISBN: HB: 9780226317038, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 2 line drawings

Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the "paradigm...

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Political Science

History

Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)

Franzmann Andreas, Munte Peter, Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings

Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Marcus Aurelius in Love

Aurelius Marcus, Fronto Marcus Cornelius

ISBN: PB: 9780226378114, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered – the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, w...

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History of Art

Arts and Crafts Movement Making It Irish

Kreilkamp Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781892850256, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2016
250 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 150 colour plates, 75 halftones

This volume, which accompanies an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, offers the first comprehensive look at the Irish dimension of the international Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of one of...

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General

Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

Elshakry Marwa

ISBN: PB: 9780226378732, ISBN: HB: 9780226001302, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In "Reading Darwin in Arabic", Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and readi...

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Biography & Memoires

Our Perfect Wild Ray & Barbara Bane's Journeys and the Fate of Far North

Johnson-Sullivan Kaylene

ISBN: PB: 9781602232785, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 colour plates, 2 maps

Ray and Barbara Bane worked as teachers in Barrow and Wainwright, Alaska, in the early 1960s – but they didn't simply teach the children of their Ia±upiat Eskimo and Koyukon friends and neighbors: they fully embraced their lifestyle. Doing so, they r...

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Ecology

Environmental Law for Biologists

Kimbrell Tristan

ISBN: PB: 9780226333854, ISBN: HB: 9780226333687, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table

Environmental law has an unquestionable effect on the species, ecosystems, and landscapes that biologists study – and vice-versa, as the research of these biologists frequently informs policy. But because many scientists receive little or no legal tr...

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