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In Japan (1893-94)

Korensky Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024620732, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
250 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During his 1893 journey around the world, Czech traveler, pedagogue, and writer Josef Korensky spent only two months traveling in Japan, yet his power of observation yielded a travelogue t...

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Linguistics

Interaction of Tone with Voicing and Foot Structure Evidence from Kera Phonetics and Phonology

Pearce Mary D.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866086, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm

This book investigates the topics of tone, vowel harmony, and metrical structure, with special reference to Kera, a Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Kera is a tone language where a change in the pitch of the word can make a difference to...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Image and Myth A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

Giuliani Luca

ISBN: HB: 9780226297651, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 87 halftones

On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece – but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In "Image and Myth", Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiq...

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Education

Individual Differences

Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575866246, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1894 John Dewey established his experimental laboratory school at the University of Chicago, with a focus on teaching each student according to their individual differences. This concept indicated a shift away from the emphasis on communal, classr...

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Law

Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Levi Edward H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226089720, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Originally published in 1949, "An Introduction to Legal Reasoning" is widely acknowledged as a classic text. As its opening sentence states, "This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law and in the...

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Ecology

Infinite Nature

Hull R. Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226102221, ISBN: HB: 9780226359441, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentalist movement has been ineffectual and even misguided. Some argue that its agenda is misplaced, oppressiv...

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Asia

Islanded Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

Sivasundaram Sujit

ISBN: HB: 9780226038223, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 33 halftones

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the is...

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Ecology

Ignoring Nature No More The Case for Compassionate Conservation

Bekoff Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226925356, ISBN: HB: 9780226925332, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
456 pp., 23x15 cm

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is impor...

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Nature

Ecology

Island Life Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates

Wallace Alfred Russel

ISBN: PB: 9780226045030, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones

Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological divers...

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America

Christianity

Image of God Catholics and American Eugenics

Leon Sharon M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226038988, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilizatio...

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