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Anthropology

Design by the Book Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu

Louis Francois

ISBN: PB: 9781941792100, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, January 2017
128 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 80 halftones

Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and transmitted illustrations. Among the most importa...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

Lee Benjamin, Martin Randy

ISBN: PB: 9780226392837, ISBN: HB: 9780226392660, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 6 line drawings

Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book...

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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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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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Literary Criticism

Daily Henry James A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

James Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226408545, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
208 pp., 18.4x12.7 cm

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, "The Daily Henry James" is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom – a limited edition quo...

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Public Health

Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing

Leder Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226396101, ISBN: HB: 9780226396071, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditi...

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America

Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss

Nelson R. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...

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Education

Diversity Bargain And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

Warikoo Natasha K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226400143, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene – if at all – to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter...

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Health & Wellbeing

Doctoring Traditions Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences

Bihari Mukharji Projit

ISBN: PB: 9780226383132, ISBN: HB: 9780226381794, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 9 line drawings

Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With "Doctoring Tradition", Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that recasting, upendin...

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Contemporary Art

Dwan Gallery Los Angeles to New York, 1959-1971

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226425108, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 325 colour plates, 90 halftones

Copublished with the National Gallery of Art in celebration of Virginia Dwan's gift to the Gallery of her extraordinary personal collection, "Dwan Gallery" explores her remarkable career. Dwan is one of the most influential figures in the history of...

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