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Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Ninth Edition)

Turabian Kate L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430577, ISBN: HB: 9780226494425, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 22 line drawings, 12 tables

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamen...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Martin Heidegger's Grouch

Marchand Yan

ISBN: HB: 9783035800524, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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America

Culture Studies

Machines of Youth America's Car Obsession

Cross Gary S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226551135, ISBN: HB: 9780226341644, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

For American teenagers, getting a driver's license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver's license in hand, teens are on the road...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Modern French Jewish Thought Writings on Religion and Politics

Hammerschlag Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781512601862, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the...

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General

Gender Studies

Making Kin not Population Reconceiving Generations

Clarke Adele, Haraway Donna

ISBN: PB: 9780996635561, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, May 2018
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs...

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Architecture

Mies van der Rohe Barcelona 1929

Capdevila-Werning Remei

ISBN: HB: 9788494423420, University of Chicago Press, Tenov Books, April 2018
256 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates, 150 halftones

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, u...

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Psychiatry

Genetics

Model Behavior Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders

Nelson Nicole C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226546087, ISBN: HB: 9780226545929, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today – but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow s...

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Birds

Ecology

Moral Entanglements Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany

Bargheer Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226543826, ISBN: HB: 9780226376639, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 line drawing

At the center of Stefan Bargheer's account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals develop moral commitments. Using life history data d...

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Philosophy

Moral Meaning of Nature Nietzsche's Darwinian Religion and Its Critics

Woodford Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539898, ISBN: HB: 9780226539751, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? "The Moral Meaning of Nature" sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an...

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Women Studies

Merits of Women Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

Fonte Moderata

ISBN: PB: 9780226550633, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man... Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps... Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when it's in fact b...

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