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Political Science

Birth of Territory

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226202570, ISBN: HB: 9780226202563, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts...

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America

Black Patriots and Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

Gilbert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226101552, ISBN: HB: 9780226293073, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm

We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population – African Americans would still be bound in sl...

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Sea Life

Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms

Goldberg Walter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226301686, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
424 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 328 colour plates, 36 halftones, 14 line illus.

Reefs provide a wealth of opportunity for learning about biological and ecosystem processes, and reef biology courses are among the most popular in marine biology and zoology departments the world over. Walter M. Goldberg has taught one such course f...

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Reference

Education

Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction

Tyler Ralph W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086507, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a...

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Literary Criticism

Media Studies

Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226103488, ISBN: HB: 9780226669786, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
208 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 40 halftones

Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book a...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Blessing Same-Sex Unions The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102535, ISBN: HB: 9780226410333, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by "Modern Brid...

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Architecture

Building Ideas An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago

Pridmore Jay

ISBN: PB: 9780226046808, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
160 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 100 colour plates

Many books have been written about the University of Chicago over its 120-year history, but most of them focus on the intellectual environment, favoring its great thinkers and their many breakthroughs. Yet for the students and scholars who live and w...

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Fiction

Birds of Paradise A Novel

Scott Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226087931, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
296 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy "The Raj Quartet", an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott's own time spent in India during World W...

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Other

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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Sea Life

Biology of Sharks and Rays

Klimley A. Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226442495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 57 colour plates, 87 halftones, 103 line drawings, 12 tables

"The Biology of Sharks and Rays" is a comprehensive resource on the biological and physiological characteristics of the cartilaginous fishes: sharks, rays, and chimaeras. In sixteen chapters, organized by theme, A. Peter Klimley covers a broad spectr...

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