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Islam

Political Science

Muslims Talking Politics Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

Kendhammer Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226369037, ISBN: HB: 9780226368986, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 5 tables

For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam's compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where – Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book – have the voices of ordinary, work...

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Political Science

Future of Illusion Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

Kahn Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226379371, ISBN: HB: 9780226083872, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological under...

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Birds

Ecology

Snowbird Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco

Ketterson Ellen D., Atwell Jonathan W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226330778, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making t...

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General

America

Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society

Krasovic Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...

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Ecology

Why Ecology Matters

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226318158, ISBN: HB: 9780226318011, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones, 12 line drawings, 3 tables

Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world's smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America – but why does it matter? Who cares? With this concise, accessible,...

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Nature

Ecology

Costa Rican Ecosystems

Kappelle Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226278933, ISBN: HB: 9780226121505, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
744 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 244 colour plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic "Costa Rican Natural History", research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a species-le...

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Contemporary Art

Willem de Kooning Nonstop Cherchez la femme

Krauss Rosalind E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226267449, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
176 pp., 24x17 cm, 65 colour plates, 8 halftones

In the early 1950s, Willem de Kooning's "Woman I" and subsequent paintings established him as a leading member of the abstract expressionist movement. His wildly impacted brushstrokes and heavily encrusted surfaces baffled most critics, who saw de Ko...

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Ecology

Environmental Law for Biologists

Kimbrell Tristan

ISBN: PB: 9780226333854, ISBN: HB: 9780226333687, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table

Environmental law has an unquestionable effect on the species, ecosystems, and landscapes that biologists study – and vice-versa, as the research of these biologists frequently informs policy. But because many scientists receive little or no legal tr...

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History of Art

Arts and Crafts Movement Making It Irish

Kreilkamp Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781892850256, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2016
250 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 150 colour plates, 75 halftones

This volume, which accompanies an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, offers the first comprehensive look at the Irish dimension of the international Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of one of...

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Jewish Studies

Strangers We Became Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews

Kaplan Shamash Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9781611688054, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five wee...

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