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Jewish Studies

Shuva The Future of the Jewish Past

Kurtzer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9781611682311, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2012
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Modern Jews tend to relate to the past through "history", which relies on empirical demonstration and rational thought, rather than through "memory", which relies on the non-rational architectures of mythology. By now "history" has surpassed "memory"...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678764, ISBN: HB: 9780226678726, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 colour illus.

When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea's waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of li...

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Music

SamulNori Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture

Hesselink Nathan

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226330976, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226330969, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 21 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of trad...

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Anthropology

General

Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Ramos-Zayas Ana Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...

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Literary Criticism

Shimmering Beast

Reinke Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780945323211, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2012
120 pp., 18.3x11.7 cm

By turns funny and abstruse, "The Shimmering Beast" is the newest book by accomplished video artist Steve Reinke, which brings together his best pieces of prose. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essays, each chapter takes on another's work...

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History

Steam-Powered Knowledge William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860

Fyfe Aileen

ISBN: HB: 9780226276519, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel – Gutenb...

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Business & Economics

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850

Freeman Mark, Pearson Robin, Taylor James

ISBN: HB: 9780226261874, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 18 line illus.

Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their orig...

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Buddhism

Shots in the Dark Japan, Zen, and the West

Yamada Shoji

ISBN: PB: 9780226947655, ISBN: HB: 9780226947648, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen He...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 19

Somin Ilya, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226767635, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
300 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad-ranging, and the contributions it brings togeth...

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Christianity

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Seeking the Straight and Narrow Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America

Gerber Lynne

ISBN: PB: 9780226288123, ISBN: HB: 9780226288116, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals – and that God will provide reliable paths towar...

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