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Philosophy

Media Studies

Excommunication Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation

Galloway Alexander R., Thacker Eugene, Wark McKenzie

ISBN: PB: 9780226925226, ISBN: HB: 9780226925219, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables

Always connect – that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself – those messages t...

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Jewish Studies

Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Select Documents, 1772-1914

Freeze Chaeran Y., Harris Jay M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684551, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book makes accessible – for the first time in English – declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotia...

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Europe

Economy of Glory From Ancien Regime France to the Fall of Napoleon

Morrissey Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226924588, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

From the outset of Napoleon's career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achilles, and even today he remains the apotheosis of French glory, a value deeply embedded in the country's history. From this angle, the...

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Education

Business & Economics

Education Policy in Developing Countries

Glewwe Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226078717, ISBN: HB: 9780226078687, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 36 tables

Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country's economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and...

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Business & Economics

Economy of Words Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks

Holmes Douglas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226087627, ISBN: HB: 9780226087597, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Markets are artifacts of language – so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have be...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Earth Sciences

Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

O'Connor Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...

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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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Poetry

El Dorado

Campion Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226077116, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
80 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In "El Dorado", Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms, and...

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Philosophy

Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: HB: 9780226039480, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss" takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school. Laurence Lampert focuses on exotericism: the use of artful rhe...

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Nature

Essay on the Geography of Plants

Humboldt Alexander, Bonpland Aime

ISBN: PB: 9780226054735, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
296 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 7 tables, poster inside book, 9 halftones

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth centu...

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