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Birds

Global Pigeon

Jerolmack Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226002088, ISBN: HB: 9780226001890, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones, 10 colour illus.

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance – if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also...

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Education

Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

Adely Fida

ISBN: PB: 9780226006918, ISBN: HB: 9780226006901, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. T...

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General

Gender, Work and Property An Ethnographic Study of Value in a Spanish Village

Konvalinka Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9783593396613, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
250 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Why do young men born in many small villages in Spain tend, at the end of the twentieth century, to stay there, often remaining unmarried, while young women from the same villages tend to leave? In "Gender, Work and Property", Nancy Konvalinka explor...

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Biography & Memoires

Gaining Daylight Life on Two Islands

Loewen Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781602231986, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2013
140 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 20 halftones

For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the...

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Women Studies

Law

Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions

Fishbayn Joffe Lisa, Neil Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611683264, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religiou...

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Philosophy

Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

Jullien Francois

ISBN: PB: 9780226415314, ISBN: HB: 9780226415307, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 colour illus.

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, "The Great Image Has No Form" explores the "nonobj...

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Christianity

God Without Being Hors-Texte (Second Edition)

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: PB: 9780226505657, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In "God Without Being", Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphys...

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Other

Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Literary Criticism

Geographies of Philological Knowledge Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic

Altschul Nadia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226016214, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
264 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

"Geographies of Philological Knowledge" examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, edito...

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Political Science

Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict

Atzili Boaz

ISBN: PB: 9780226031361, ISBN: HB: 9780226031354, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 halftones, 5 line illus.

Border fixity – the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory – has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relatio...

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