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Philosophy

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Winsberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226902043, ISBN: HB: 9780226902029, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Computer simulation was first pioneered as a scientific tool in meteorology and nuclear physics in the period following World War II, but it has grown rapidly to become indispensible in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics...

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Criminology

Current Affairs

Seven Shots An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath

Hunt Jennifer C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226360904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the New York subway that would have cost hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. "Seven Shots" tells the...

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Media Studies

General

Starring Mandela and Cosby Media and the End(s) of Apartheid

Krabill Ron

ISBN: PB: 9780226451893, ISBN: HB: 9780226451886, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa – among both Black and White South Africans – was "The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and th...

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Fiction

Slayground A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770925, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 20x13 cm

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalcula...

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Political Science

Strengthening Peace in Post-Civil War States Transforming Spoilers into Stakeholders

Hoddie Matthew, Hartzell Caroline A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226351254, ISBN: HB: 9780226351247, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 1 map, 1 line illus.

Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars – from Yugoslavia to Congo – frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere. Given the inherent fragility of civil war peace agreements, innovative approache...

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America

Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2009

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

ISBN: HB: 9780226362557, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For forty-nine 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, one that strives to keep...

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Contemporary Art

Studio Reader On the Space of Artists

Jacob Mary Jane, Grabner Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226389615, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
328 pp., 23x18 cm, 69 halftones

The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever si...

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Physics

Philosophy

Scientific Perspectivism

Giere Ronald N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292137, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 line drawings, 12 colour illus.

Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But "Scientific Perspectivism" argues that the acts of observing and theorizing are both matters of perspective – which makes scientific knowledge contingent. Using the example of...

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Education

Schools Betrayed Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education

Neckerman Kathryn M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569611, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 25 line illus.

The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In "Schools Betrayed", her innovative history of race and urban...

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