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America

Nature and Nurture of Love From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

Marga Vicedo

ISBN: PB: 9780226215136, ISBN: HB: 9780226020556, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones, 4 line illus.

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists – anything from the fear of romantic comm...

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Travel

Northern Exposures An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images

Waterman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231931, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
250 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 96 colour illus.

North of the sixtieth parallel parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this spec...

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Philosophy

Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death

Scharfstein Ben-Ami

ISBN: HB: 9780226105758, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

What if Immanuel Kant floated down from his transcendental heights, straight through Alice's rabbit hole, and into the fabulous world of Lewis Carroll? For Ben-Ami Scharfstein this is a wonderfully instructive scenario and the perfect way to begin th...

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History

Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

Yeo Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226106564, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In "Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science", Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important...

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Mathematics

New Studies in Weak Arithmetics

Cegielski Patrick, Cornaros Charalampos, Dimitracopoulos Costas

ISBN: PB: 9781575867236, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2014
221 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists".New Studies in Weak Arithmetics" is dedicated to late Australian mathematicia...

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Political Science

Negotiating in Civil Conflict Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq

Ala Hamoudi Haider

ISBN: PB: 9780226068824, ISBN: HB: 9780226315348, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Ir...

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Women Studies

Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India

Datta Bishakha

ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm

From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...

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Business & Economics

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012 Volume 9

Giavazzi Francesco, West Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226053271, ISBN: HB: 9780226053134, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for over thirty years. The topics covered in this year's volume fall into four categories: exchange rates, global business cycles, the financial crisis, and unemploy...

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Photography

Nature

Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska

Inulak Lum Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...

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Philosophy

Neighbor Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface

Zizek Slavoj, Santner Eric L., Reinhard Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226045207, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 line illus.

In "Civilization and Its Discontents", Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself".Let us adopt a naive...

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