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Anthropology

Phoenix An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast

Nigg Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780226195490, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 17 line drawings

Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world a...

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Philosophy

Data-Centric Biology A Philosophical Study

Leonelli Sabina

ISBN: PB: 9780226416472, ISBN: HB: 9780226416335, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approa...

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America

Old-Time Saloon Not Wet – Not Dry, Just History

Ade George

ISBN: PB: 9780226412306, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings

Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, "The Old-T...

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Women Studies

America

Big Bosses A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America

McDowell Altemus Althea

ISBN: PB: 9780226423623, ISBN: HB: 9780226423593, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, "Big Bosses", she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) empl...

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Anthropology

Mothers on the Move Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe

Feldman-Savelsberg Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9780226389882, ISBN: HB: 9780226389745, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explo...

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Literary Criticism

Horror and a Beauty The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels

Chalupsky Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024631615, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
302 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London – its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through w...

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Ecology

Unfreezing the Arctic Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

Stuhl Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780226416649, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing

In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, most commentato...

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Women Studies

Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence The Right to Heal: Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India

Chatterji Angana P., Buluswar Shashi, Kaur Mallika

ISBN: HB: 9789384757113, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
454 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence" elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and qu...

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Jewish Studies

Raising Secular Jews Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950

Prawer Kadar Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611689877, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This unique literary study of Yiddish children's periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schoo...

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Women Studies

Law

Difficult Transition The Nepal Papers

Sharma Mandira, Tamang Seira

ISBN: HB: 9789385932052, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its neighborhood. A "Difficult Transition" shows that, in addit...

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