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Anthropology

What Is an Event?

Wagner-Pacifici Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780226439785, ISBN: HB: 9780226439648, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 1 halftone

We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life's inevitable moments – birth, death, l...

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Earth Sciences

Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Wittgenstein and Modernism

LeMahieu Michael, Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226420400, ISBN: HB: 9780226420370, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry", and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary". But few books have really followed up on these claims...

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Anthropology

World An Anthropological Examination

de Pina-Cabral Joao

ISBN: PB: 9780997367508, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2017
134 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

What do we mean when we refer to the world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does the world mean for the ethnographer and the anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worl...

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Fiction

We Were a Handful

Polacek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...

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Law

Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails

Mahoney Paul G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...

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Law

General

Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

Edelman Lauren B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...

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Psychology

Wandering Mind What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking

Corballis Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226418919, ISBN: HB: 9780226238616, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

If we've done our job well – and, let's be honest, if we're lucky – you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how i...

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Poetry

White Islands / Las Islas Blancas

Agosin Marjorie, Nanfito Jacqueline, Held Michal

ISBN: PB: 9780983322092, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x13.3 cm

"I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean". So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jew...

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Anthropology

Why We Play An Anthropological Study

Hamayon Roberte

ISBN: PB: 9780986132568, University of Chicago Press, HAU, August 2016
370 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined en...

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