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Fiction

Echo of Ice Letting Go

LeMay Julie

ISBN: PB: 9781602233119, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Rooted in the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of Alaska, this collection of poems is at once comforting and disquieting, permeated with wisdom, darkness, and resilience. Taken together, the poems form a powerful narrative, as Julie Hungiville LeMay re...

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Business & Economics

Leading with the Brain The 7 Neurobiological Factors to Boost Employee Satisfaction and Business Results

Purps-Pardigol Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593506685, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
207 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

How do business leaders inspire their employees so deeply that employees strive to surpass their own best work, helping managers and their staff to achieve mutual success? Sebastian Purps-Pardigol has figured it out – and the answer starts with the b...

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Anthropology

World An Anthropological Examination

de Pina-Cabral Joao

ISBN: PB: 9780997367508, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2017
134 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

What do we mean when we refer to the world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does the world mean for the ethnographer and the anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worl...

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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Anthropology

Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece

Stewart Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226425245, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 halftones

On publication in 2012, "Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece" quickly met wide acclaim as a gripping work that, according to the Times Literary Supplement, "offers a wholly new way of thinking about dreams in their social contexts"...

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Anthropology

Values of Happiness Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life

Kavedzija Iza, Walker Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780986132575, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2017
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fu...

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Law

Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom

Feigenson Neal

ISBN: HB: 9780226413730, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table

Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident. Lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses are now see...

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Medieval

Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries

Kay Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226436739, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates, 28 halftones

Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin besti...

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General

Intersectional Inequality Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty

Ragin Charles C., Fiss Peer C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226414409, ISBN: HB: 9780226414379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 46 tables

For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Ragin has developed Qualitative Comparative Analysis and related set-analytic techniques as a means of bridging qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin uses these impressi...

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Mathematics

Studies in Weak Arithmetics Volume 3

Cegielski Patrick, Enayat Ali, Kossak Roman

ISBN: PB: 9781575869537, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists. This third volume in the weak arithmetics collection contains nine substantiv...

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