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Ecology

Evolution

Messages from Islands A Global Biodiversity Tour

Hanski Ilkka

ISBN: PB: 9780226406442, ISBN: HB: 9780226406305, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 2 tables

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, "Messages from Islands" is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands...

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Philosophy

Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict

Johnston David, Urbinati Nadia, Vergara Camila

ISBN: HB: 9780226429304, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
440 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote "The Prince", his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. While scholars continue to investigate interpretations of "The Prin...

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General

Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences

Sayer Derek

ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 51, 2016

Baetjer Katharine, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226438047, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the museum's collection. Highlights of Volume 51 include a reassessment of a Degas pastel, an examination of painted Maya vessels from the third to tenth...

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Philosophy

Linguistics

Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition

Moravcsik Julius M.

ISBN: PB: 9781575864808, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition – humans not as information-processing creatu...

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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet

Holl Ute

ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones

Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...

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Linguistics

Polonica

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions

Blaszczak Joanna, Giannakidou Anastasia, Klimek-Jankowska Dorota, Migdalski Krzysztof

ISBN: HB: 9780226363523, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 15 line drawings, 14 tables

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these...

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Mammals

Evolution

Monkeytalk Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates

Fischer Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226124247, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings

Monkey see, monkey do – or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates – their sociality, their intelligence, their communication – really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer re...

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Chemistry

Biography & Memoires

Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

Hemmungs Wirten Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones

In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...

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Anthropology

Mothers on the Move Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe

Feldman-Savelsberg Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9780226389882, ISBN: HB: 9780226389745, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explo...

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