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Archaeology & Paleontology

Mammals

Bones, Clones, and Biomes The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals

Patterson Bruce D., Costa Leonora P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226649191, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 26 halftones, 13 line illus.

As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attrib...

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Education

Uncivil Rights Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity

Perrillo Jonna

ISBN: PB: 9780226660721, ISBN: HB: 9780226660714, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm

Almost fifty years after "Brown v. Board of Education", a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and ci...

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History

Acolytes of Nature Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850

Phillips Denise

ISBN: HB: 9780226667379, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of "science" itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "science...

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Criminology

Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law

Phillips Susan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667669, ISBN: HB: 9780226667652, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line illus.

In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted fo...

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General

Law

Not Just Roommates Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

Pleck Elizabeth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671048, ISBN: HB: 9780226671031, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 15 halftones

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In "Not Just Roommates", Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed...

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Fiction

Naked Singularity A Novel

Pava De La Sergio

ISBN: PB: 9780226141794, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
688 pp., 23x15 cm

"A Naked Singularity" tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender – one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of...

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Women Studies

Mom The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America

Plant Rebecca Jo

ISBN: PB: 9780226670225, ISBN: HB: 9780226670201, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm

In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixt...

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Political Science

Cutting the Fuse The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It

Pape Robert A., Feldman James K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226645650, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 34 line illus.

Almost every week, suicide bombers attack. We know the danger – suicide attacks kill more people than all other forms of terrorism – and in response we have sacrificed the lives of soldiers and civilians, trillions of dollars, and America's reputatio...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Stratigraphic Paleobiology Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

Patzkowsky Mark E., Holland Steven M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226649382, ISBN: HB: 9780226649375, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 colour illus., 31 halftones, 19 line illus.

Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, b...

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Other

Religion of Falun Gong

Penny Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226655017, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights a...

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