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Philosophy

Law

Ethics of Interrogation

Skerker Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226761626, ISBN: HB: 9780226761619, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm

The act of interrogation, and debate over its use, pervade our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media,...

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Europe

Empire's Children Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

Saada Emmanuelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226733081, ISBN: HB: 9780226733074, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discove...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Brintnall Kent L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...

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Literary Criticism

Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of the Novel

Aravamudan Srinivas

ISBN: PB: 9780226024493, ISBN: HB: 9780226024486, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent q...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

Bloor David

ISBN: PB: 9780226060958, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 97 halftones

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership o...

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Business & Economics

Ancient World

Economic Origins of Roman Christianity

Ekelund Robert B. Jr., Tollison Robert D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226200026, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 1 line illus.

In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion. For millions of people, it is an integral part of everyday life, reflected by a widely divergent supply of practices and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically,...

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Sea Life

Evolution

Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes

Evans Jonathan P., Pilastro Andrea, Schlupp Ingo

ISBN: HB: 9780226222745, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
472 pp., 28x22 cm, 54 maps, 25 tables, 34 line illus.

The history of biology is populated by numerous model species or organisms. But few vertebrate groups have aided evolutionary and ecological research more than the live-bearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. Found throughout tropical and subtropic...

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Evolution

Evidence for Evolution

Rogers Alan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723822, ISBN: HB: 9780226723808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables, 27 line illus.

According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution – natural selection, genetic drift,...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Traina Cristina L. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...

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Europe

Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

McNeill William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561523, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In "Europe's Steppe Frontier", acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill b...

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