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History

Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

Collins Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226052298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

"Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog" brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but a...

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Business & Economics

Globalization in an Age of Crisis Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century

Feenstra Robert C., Taylor Alan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226030753, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2013
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 60 line drawings, 12 tables

Along with its painful economic costs, the financial crisis of 2008 raised concerns over the future of international policy making. As in recessions past, new policy initiatives emerged, approaches that placed greater importance on protecting nationa...

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Biography & Memoires

Grains of Gold Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler

Chopel Gendun

ISBN: HB: 9780226091976, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings

In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native lan...

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Jewish Studies

German Idealism and the Jew The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses

Mack Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226500966, ISBN: HB: 9780226500942, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
237 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "German Idealism and the Jew", Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the re...

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Earth Sciences

Gaia Hypothesis Science on a Pagan Planet

Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226731704, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 halftones, 5 line drawings

In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Go...

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Poetry

God and The End of Satan / Dieu and La Fin de Satan Selections: In a Bilingual Edition

Hugo Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780983322047, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2013
420 pp., 23x15 cm, language: English / French, 10 halftones

While living in exile with his family on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, Victor Hugo wrote some of his greatest poetry and prose, including "Les Miserables" and two epic poems: "Dieu" and "La Fin de Satan".Dieu" pictures the imaginary...

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Business & Economics

Global Rivalries Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade

Quark Amy A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226050676, ISBN: HB: 9780226050539, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 line drawings, 12 tables

As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade. Setting the rules carries with it the power to establish advantage, so it's no sur...

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Children's Books

Gone Again Ptarmigan

London Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781602232044, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2013
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus.

Every winter, willow ptarmigan birds put on new feathery coats, softly white and perfect for hiding in snow. In the spring they take on a spotted brown more suited to nesting. This is just one of the captivating changes that take place in the Far Nor...

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Gender Studies

Gentlemen's Disagreement Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men

Hegarty Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226024585, ISBN: HB: 9780226024448, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line illus.

What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and of human sexuality in the United States have been increasingly common – and hotly debated. But rarely ha...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Germany's Prophet Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism

Sieg Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9781584657552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recognized in his own time and also today as a leading scholar of the origins and development of the Septuagint and its sources, Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a vituperative German nationalist and an antisemite whose writings inspired the National...

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