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Middle East

Instability in the Middle East Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2012

Cerny Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024634272, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration,...

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Fiction

Women Studies

India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...

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Philosophy

Sport

I in Team Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity

Tarver Erin C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226470139, ISBN: HB: 9780226469935, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables

There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn't the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn't the grunts or even the stadium music. It's the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports f...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France

McCracken Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226458922, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet – whether as friends or foes – issues of mastery and submission are often at stake".In the Skin of a Beast" shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting lar...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2016 Volume 17

Greenstein Shane M., Lerner Joshua, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226489858, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2017
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's "Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the int...

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Ecology

Imagining Extinction The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

Heise Ursula K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226358161, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 13 halftones, 2 tables

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim – the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention th...

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Mammals

Biography & Memoires

In Wild Trust Larry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown Bears

Fair Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602233232, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2017
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 colour plates, 3 maps

For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping of brown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a manager...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Insights in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426679, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 63 line drawings, 114 tables

The fraction of the population over age sixty-five in many developed countries is projected to rise, in some cases sharply, in coming decades. This has drawn growing interest to research on the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they...

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Mathematics

Inferences with Ignorance Logics of Questions

Pelis Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024631813, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
100 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Inferences with Ignorance" focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as...

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World

In Space We Read Time On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics

Schlogel Karl

ISBN: HB: 9781941792087, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2017
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones

History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlogel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlogel relishes space th...

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