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Caribbean A History of the Region and Its Peoples

Palmie Stephan, Scarano Francisco A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226645087, ISBN: HB: 9780226645063, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
624 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 2 figures, 1 table, 71 halftones

Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the co...

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Business & Economics

Criminology

Controlling Crime Strategies and Tradeoffs

Cook Philip J., Ludwig Jens, McCrary Justin

ISBN: HB: 9780226115122, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 tables, 55 line illus.

Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished...

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Poetry

Contradance

Peck John

ISBN: PB: 9780226652924, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
88 pp., 23x15 cm

In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck's poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck's verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, a...

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Technology & Engineering

Computer Science & Internet

Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future

Pickering Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...

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Poetry

Counter-Amores

Clarvoe Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226109282, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
88 pp., 22x14 cm

Jennifer Clarvoe's second book, "Counter-Amores", wrestles with and against love. The poems in the title series talk back to Ovid's Amores, and, in talking back, take charge, take delight, and take revenge. They suggest that we discover what we love...

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History of Art

Controversy of Renaissance Art

Nagel Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226567723, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
376 pp., 25.7x22.4 cm, 100 halftones, 60 colour illus.

Many studies have shown that images – their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses – were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it aff...

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Political Science

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

Niebuhr Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780226584003, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 20.5x13 cm

"The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness", first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy....

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Anthropology

Cultural Transfers in Dispute Representations in Asia, Europe and the Arab World since the Middle Ages

Feuchter Jorg, Hoffmann Friedhelm, Yun Bee

ISBN: PB: 9783593394046, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2011
300 pp., 22x14 cm

Our conception of cultures and cultural change has altered dramatically in recent decades: no longer do we understand cultures as isolated units; rather, we see them as hybrid formations constantly engaged in a multidirectional process of exchange an...

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Evolution

Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Nunn Charles L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608990, ISBN: HB: 9780226608983, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 20 halftones, 111 line illus.

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found,...

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Education

Law

Courts and Kids Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts

Rebell Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706177, ISBN: HB: 9780226706191, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in "...

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