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Osiris, Volume 31 History of Science and the Emotions

Dror Otniel, Hitzer Bettina, Laukotter Anja, Leon-Sanz Pilar

ISBN: PB: 9780226392042, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
318 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume of "Osiris" explores the historical interrelationships between science and its cultures and cultures of emotions. It argues that a dia...

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Anthropology

"Man-with Variations" Interviews with Franz Boas and Colleagues, 1937

Mitchell Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780996635516, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2017
75 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

"The most interesting human beings, so far as talk is concerned, are anthropologists, farmers, prostitutes, psychiatrists, and the occasional bartender". So wrote Joseph Mitchell, the legendary New Yorker journalist and chronicler of the full spectru...

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Ecology

Good That Transcends How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform

Freyfogle Eric T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226326115, ISBN: HB: 9780226326085, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance t...

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Business & Economics

Elements of Time Series Econometrics An Applied Approach (Third Edition)

Kocenda Evzen, Cerny Alexandr

ISBN: PB: 9788024631998, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
220 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A time series is a sequence of numbers collected at regular intervals over a period of time. Designed with emphasis on the practical application of theoretical tools, Elements of Time Seri...

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Buddhism

Storied Sage Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha

Auerback Micah L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226286389, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has...

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Architecture

American Imperial Pastoral The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines

Tinio McKenna Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226417769, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "Made No Little Plans", set off for the Philippines, the new US colonial acquisition. Charged with designing environments for the occupation government, Burnha...

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Contemporary Art

Anthropology

Creative Alaska A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013

Haakanson Sven, Steffian Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781602232853, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates

Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...

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Political Science

Strategic Party Government Why Winning Trumps Ideology

Koger Gregory, Lebo Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424606, ISBN: HB: 9780226424576, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 figures, 16 tables

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compellin...

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Philosophy

Complete Tragedies, Volume 1 Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: HB: 9780226748238, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE-...

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Philosophy

Complete Tragedies, Volume 2 Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: HB: 9780226013602, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE-...

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