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Foundations of Macroecology Classic Papers with Commentaries

Smith Felisa A., Gittleman John L., Brown James H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115474, ISBN: HB: 9780226115337, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
824 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 1 halftone, 252 line drawings, 90 tables

Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ec...

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Culture Studies

Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture

Rosenthal Caroline, Schafer Stefanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593501017, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
230 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

In North America, where the sociocultural history and national mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile ground for the invention of identities both fake and "real" impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic imperso...

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General

Health & Wellbeing

Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being

Stavrova Olga

ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm

Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...

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History of Art

Education

Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)

Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette

ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...

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Philosophy

Formal Methods and Empirical Practices Conversations with Patrick Suppes

Ferrario Roberta, Schiaffonati Viola

ISBN: PB: 9781575866529, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2014
151 pp., 23x15 cm

The philosopher Patrick Suppes has developed a unique and influential approach to studying the foundations of science – he combines an understanding of the main principles of scientific theories in axiomatic terms and formal models with a hands-on ap...

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Anthropology

General

Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia

Rottger-Rossler Birgitt, Stodulka Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9783593500058, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

"Feelings at the Margins" offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional impact on affected individuals and groups. By combining anthropological, political, and historical per...

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Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Father Benito Vines The 19th-Century Life and Contributions of a Cuban Hurricane Observer and Scientist

Ramos Guadalupe Luis E.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704621, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, May 2014
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings, 5 maps

Before Doppler radar and broadcast weather reports, Spanish-born Benito Vines (1837-1893) spent decades observing the skies at Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba, routinely issuing weather reports and forecasts to local newspapers. And before storm t...

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Political Science

Freedom's Ballot African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration

Garb Margaret

ISBN: HB: 9780226135908, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 maps

In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participa...

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Philosophy

Freedom and the End of Reason On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy

Velkley Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155173, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Freedom and the End of Reason", Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole o...

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Anthropology

Far Afield French Anthropology between Science and Literature

Debaene Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226107066, ISBN: HB: 9780226106908, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary ac...

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