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Architecture

Building Ideas An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago

Pridmore Jay

ISBN: PB: 9780226046808, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
160 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 100 colour plates

Many books have been written about the University of Chicago over its 120-year history, but most of them focus on the intellectual environment, favoring its great thinkers and their many breakthroughs. Yet for the students and scholars who live and w...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Pigliucci Massimo, Boudry Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...

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Anthropology

Other

Cooking of History How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

Palmie Stephan

ISBN: PB: 9780226019567, ISBN: HB: 9780226019420, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm

Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship – a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa – Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban...

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General

Black Picket Fences, Second Edition Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Pattillo Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226021195, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's "Black Picket Fences" explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a...

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Cartography

Astronomy

Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055404, ISBN: HB: 9780226675343, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 tables, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line illus.

The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes i...

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America

West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire

Purcell Munley Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9781589662124, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2013
100 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

In early 1947 residents of the west side of Carbondale, Pennsylvania began noticing a peculiar steam escaping from the ground. An investigation into this phenomenon revealed that Carbondale was slowly but steadily being destroyed by a burning inferno...

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General

Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

Pierre Jemima

ISBN: PB: 9780226923031, ISBN: HB: 9780226923024, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking "The Predicament of Blackness" is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa...

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Literary Criticism

Popular Science

Loving Faster than Light Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

Price Katy

ISBN: HB: 9780226680736, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 9 line illus.

In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein's theory quickly became a rich c...

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Reference

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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Philosophy

Maimonides and Spinoza Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature

Parens Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226645742, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
240 pp., 25x15 cm

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza – as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization – among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the...

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