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Physics

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium

Cole K. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226113470, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
416 pp., 25x15 cm, 13 halftones

How do we reclaim our innate enchantment with the world? And how can we turn our natural curiosity into a deep, abiding love for knowledge? Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was captivated by these questio...

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Women Studies

Islam

Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies

Raghavan Chitra, Levine James P.

ISBN: PB: 9781611682809, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessaril...

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Dogs

Sport

Skijor with Your Dog

Kaynor Carol, Hoe-Raitto Mari

ISBN: PB: 9781602231863, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2012
318 pp., 25x15 cm

Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone – and almost any breed of dog – can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this po...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2011

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226362564, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions. The "Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront o...

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Jewish Studies

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

Boyarin Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226069173, ISBN: HB: 9780226069166, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dial...

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Jewish Studies

Sundays at Sinai A Jewish Congregation in Chicago

Brinkmann Tobias

ISBN: HB: 9780226074542, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 16 halftones

First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America's oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner...

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Business & Economics

Solidarity in Strategy Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations

Spillman Lyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226769578, ISBN: HB: 9780226769561, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables

Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually...

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History

Philosophy

Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50th Anniversary Edition

Kuhn Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226458120, ISBN: HB: 9780226458113, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its i...

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America

Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920

Gienow-Hecht Jessica C. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292168, ISBN: HB: 9780226292151, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 6 line illus.

The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United State...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Stratigraphic Paleobiology Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

Patzkowsky Mark E., Holland Steven M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226649382, ISBN: HB: 9780226649375, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 colour illus., 31 halftones, 19 line illus.

Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, b...

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