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Entomology

Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Munz Tania

ISBN: PB: 9780226526508, ISBN: HB: 9780226020860, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 7 line drawings

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators – and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, b...

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Anthropology

Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations The 1969 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Murra John V.

ISBN: PB: 9780997367553, University of Chicago Press, HAU, September 2017
170 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 14 colour plates, 3 maps

John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization". Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andea...

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Literary Criticism

Invention of the Oral Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain

McDowell Paula

ISBN: HB: 9780226456966, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their...

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General

Feminist Subversion and Complicity Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

Mukhopadhyay Maitrayee

ISBN: HB: 9789385932168, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Feminist Subversion and Complicity" brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who, while working at diverse kinds of institutions, are all closely involved in the intersection of development policy...

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Anthropology

Africa

Matatu A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Mutongi Kenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226471396, ISBN: HB: 9780226130866, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus – colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed o...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Dr. Freud, Fish Whisperer

Muller-Colard Marion

ISBN: HB: 9783035800074, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Political Science

Africa

Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226453606, ISBN: HB: 9780226453576, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country ap...

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Jewish Studies

Sabbatian Heresy Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity

Maciejko Pawel

ISBN: PB: 9781512600520, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626-1676) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in Judaism that spread across Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in wh...

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Fiction

River Runs through It and Other Stories

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226472065, ISBN: HB: 9780226475592, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of "A River Runs through It and Other Stories" to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it". Forty years later, the title novella is rec...

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Fiction

Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...

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