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Until Choice Do Us Part Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era

Eby Clare Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9780226085838, ISBN: HB: 9780226085661, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

For centuries, people have been thinking and writing – and fiercely debating – about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a too...

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Unwanted Child The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany

Harrington Joel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102054, ISBN: HB: 9780226317274, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones, 9 line drawings

The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society".The Unwanted Child" skill...

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America

Up North St. Louis's Summer Colonies on Lake Huron in the Golden Age of Travel

Brookes Douglas Scott

ISBN: PB: 9781883982744, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, May 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 1 map, 80 halftones

For everyone from school age to professional, there is no greater pleasure than the summer vacation, the chance to pack our suitcases and escape from workaday life and domestic chores; we look forward to it during the long slog and count down the day...

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Philosophy

Physics

Unsimple Truths Science, Complexity, and Policy

Mitchell Sandra D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226006628, ISBN: HB: 9780226532622, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones

The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference...

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Anthropology

Unmasking the State Making Guinea Modern

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226925103, ISBN: HB: 9780226925097, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 8 tables, 12 halftones

When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes". The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urg...

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Nature

Sea Life

Underwater Eden Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

Stone Gregory S., Obura David

ISBN: HB: 9780226775609, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
184 pp., 25x20 cm, 2 tables, 91 colour illus.

"It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago". That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Paci...

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Dictionaries

University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary Sixth Edition: Diccionario Universidad de Chicago Ingles-Espanol, Sexta Edicion

Pharies David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226666969, ISBN: HB: 9780226666952, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
626 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For more than sixty years, "The University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary" has set the standard for concise bilingual dictionaries. Now thoroughly revised to reflect the most current vocabulary and usage in both languages, this dictionary enab...

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Education

Uncivil Rights Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity

Perrillo Jonna

ISBN: PB: 9780226660721, ISBN: HB: 9780226660714, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm

Almost fifty years after "Brown v. Board of Education", a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and ci...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

Unoriginal Genius Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226660622, ISBN: HB: 9780226660615, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 44 halftones

What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information – a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a...

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Philosophy

Uncivil Unions The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism

Daub Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780226136936, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm

"What a strange invention marriage is!" wrote Kierkegaard".Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership... or is it a little of all that?" Like Kierkegaard a...

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