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Education

Rise of the Research University A Sourcebook

Menand Louis, Reitter Paul, Wellmon Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226414713, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and,...

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Jewish Studies

Raising Secular Jews Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950

Prawer Kadar Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611689877, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This unique literary study of Yiddish children's periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schoo...

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Fiction

Rambling On An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: PB: 9788024632865, ISBN: HB: 9788024623160, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
230 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eightieth Edition, 2015-2016

Kaye Elizabeth A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261935, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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Chemistry

History

Radium and the Secret of Life

Campos Luis A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226418742, ISBN: HB: 9780226238272, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in l...

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Asia

Rural Modern Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China

Merkel-Hess Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226383279, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical...

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Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Revathi A Life in Trans Activism

Revathi A., Murali Nandini

ISBN: PB: 9789384757755, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A. Revathi's memoir "The Truth about Me" became a sensation in India when it was published in 2011. The pathbreaking autobiography told the story of Revathi's childhood uneasiness with her male body, her exile to a house of "hijras" (the South Asian...

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Christianity

Gender Studies

Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church

Allie Tichenor Kimba

ISBN: PB: 9781611689099, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women's reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in Wes...

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Philosophy

Dogs

Run, Spot, Run The Ethics of Keeping Pets

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226209890, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as po...

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Literary Criticism

Rootedness The Ramifications of a Metaphor

Wampole Christy

ISBN: HB: 9780226317656, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth – and nations – from which they came. In "Rootedness", Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of...

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