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Poetry

Contradance

Peck John

ISBN: PB: 9780226652924, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
88 pp., 23x15 cm

In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck's poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck's verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, a...

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Technology & Engineering

Computer Science & Internet

Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future

Pickering Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226669762, ISBN: HB: 9780226669755, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
152 pp., 23x15 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain rea...

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Business & Economics

Wealth and Poverty of Regions Why Cities Matter

Polese Mario

ISBN: PB: 9780226673165, ISBN: HB: 9780226673158, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 halftones, 23 line illus.

As the world becomes more interconnected through travel and electronic communication, many believe that physical places will become less important. But as Mario Polese argues in "The Wealth and Poverty of Regions", geography will matter more than eve...

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Culture Studies

Chicago A Biography

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644288, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
472 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 145 halftones

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a "City on the Make". Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders". Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle", while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it "the Second City". At...

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Criminology

Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Preib Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226679822, ISBN: HB: 9780226679808, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
176 pp., 21.3x14 cm

Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department – a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the Ci...

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Anthropology

Sorcery in the Black Atlantic

Pares Luis Nicolau, Sansi Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226645780, ISBN: HB: 9780226645773, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Bol...

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Culture Studies

Africa

Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman

Parsons Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...

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Anthropology

Nostalgia for the Future West Africa after the Cold War

Piot Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226669656, ISBN: HB: 9780226669649, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones

Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and...

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Sea Life

Chasing Science at Sea Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678740, ISBN: HB: 9780226678702, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
178 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 4 colour illus.

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation....

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