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Cultural Evolution How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

Mesoudi Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226520445, ISBN: HB: 9780226520438, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 11 line illus.

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian...

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Literary Criticism

Conflagration of Community Fiction before and after Auschwitz

Miller J. Hillis

ISBN: PB: 9780226527222, ISBN: HB: 9780226527215, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm

"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric".The Conflagration of Community" challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extrem...

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Surgery

Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Kellogg Katherine C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430034, ISBN: HB: 9780226430027, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
248 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 line illus.

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent obs...

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Other

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates (Second Edition)

Fortescue Michael, Jacobson Steven, Kaplan Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9781555001094, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
720 pp., 28x21.5 cm

An updated and comprehensive reference to the Aleut-Eskimo languages spoken from the northeastern tip of Siberia all the way east to Greenland, this easy-to-use volume groups related words from the modern Eskimo languages in comparative sets with the...

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Education

Chicago Handbook for Teachers (Second Edition) A Practical Guide to the College Classroom

Brinkley Alan, El-Fakahany Esam, Dessants Betty, Flamm Michael, Forcey Charles B., Ouellett Mathew L., Rothschild Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226075280, ISBN: HB: 9780226075273, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm

Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself".The Chicago H...

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Ancient World

Anthropology

Courtesans and Fishcakes The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

Davidson James N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137438, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 2 maps, 8 halftones

As any reader of the "Symposium" knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he ref...

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Business & Economics

Law

Collateral Knowledge Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets

Riles Annelise

ISBN: PB: 9780226719337, ISBN: HB: 9780226719320, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through...

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Women Studies

Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights

Feldman Jan

ISBN: PB: 9781584659730, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional religious co...

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Education

Classrooms All Young Children Need Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

Cooper Patricia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115245, ISBN: HB: 9780226115238, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
248 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Childre...

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Political Science

Cultures of Border Control Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

Zaiotti Ruben

ISBN: PB: 9780226977874, ISBN: HB: 9780226977867, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 9 tables, 2 line illus.

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs. Set...

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