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Evolution

Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

Richards Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226058931, ISBN: HB: 9780226058764, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 7 line drawings

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values...

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Gender Studies

Education

Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools

Rosenfeld Gorsetman Chaya, Maryles Sztokman Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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Political Science

Transition Scenarios China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century

Rapkin David P., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040479, ISBN: HB: 9780226040332, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 21 tables

China's rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat...

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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Oedipus and the Sphinx The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

Renger Almut-Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780226048086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 1 table

When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle – he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myt...

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Earth Sciences

Gaia Hypothesis Science on a Pagan Planet

Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226731704, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 halftones, 5 line drawings

In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Go...

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Judaism

Brandeis Modern Hebrew: Intermediate to Advanced Pilot Edition

Ringvald Vardit, Porath Bonit, Peleg Yaron, Shorr Esther

ISBN: PB: 9781611684476, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2013
396 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew program at Brandeis University, the pilot edition of Brandeis Modern Hebrew, Intermediate to Advanced serves as a sequel to the well-known volume for beginners. It contains the functional and contextual eleme...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Demands of the Day On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry

Rabinow Paul, Stavrianakis Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226036915, ISBN: HB: 9780226036885, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
144 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables

"Demands of the Day" asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "d...

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Business & Economics

Chicago Business and Industry From Fur Trade to E-Commerce

Reiff Janice L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226709369, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 24 halftones

From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. With its blue-collar work ethic and an economic history that extends into virtually every segment of American industry, it...

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Law

Payback The Case for Revenge

Rosenbaum Thane

ISBN: HB: 9780226726618, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm

We call it justice – the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call...

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