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Whale and the Reactor A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Second Edition)

Winner Langdon

ISBN: PB: 9780226692548, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid". First published to...

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Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Third Edition)

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643939, ISBN: HB: 9780226683638, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones

For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholar...

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Philosophy

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling The Function of Avowal in Justice

Foucault Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226708904, ISBN: HB: 9780226257709, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures – which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of...

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Fiction

Wild Rivers, Wild Rose

Birdsall Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602234062, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

In 1941, Anna Harker is attacked by an ax-wielding assailant in the gold-bearing ridges bordering the Alaska Range. It is this moment of savagery that propels the people of "Wild Rivers, Wild Rose". Anna's lover, Wade Daniels, learns of the deaths of...

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Fiction

Waiting A Collection of Stories

Gandhi Nighat

ISBN: HB: 9789385932540, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young girls struggle for the "purity" that religion deman...

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History

Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics

Epple Moritz, Imhausen Annette, Muller Falk

ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...

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Cartography

When Maps Become the World

Gronfeldt Winther Rasmus

ISBN: PB: 9780226674728, ISBN: HB: 9780226669670, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 37 halftones

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our re...

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Philosophy

Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

Patton Laurie L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226675985, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Who Owns Religion?" focuses on a period – the late 1980s through the 1990s – when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves honoring through their work. While controversies inv...

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Fiction

Why I Write? The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: HB: 9788024642680, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Marechal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing". Taken...

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Sea Life

Why Study Biology by the Sea?

Matlin Karl S., Maienschein Jane, Ankeny Rachel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226672939, ISBN: HB: 9780226672762, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 6 line drawings

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the...

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