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Jewish Studies

Through the Sands of Time A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Cohen Judah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683097, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
332 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1796, the Jews of St. Thomas founded the first Jewish congregation on this Caribbean island. By 1803, new arrivals from England, France, and the neighboring islands of St. Eustatius and Curacao increased the original number from a handful of congr...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis

Allhoff Fritz

ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...

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America

Thousand-Year Flood The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

Welky David

ISBN: HB: 9780226887166, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones

In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a milli...

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Architecture

Terror and Wonder Architecture in a Tumultuous Age

Kamin Blair

ISBN: PB: 9780226423128, ISBN: HB: 9780226423111, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 70 halftones

For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the "Chicago Tribune" has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kam...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Tenth of a Second A History

Canales Jimena

ISBN: PB: 9780226093192, ISBN: HB: 9780226093185, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 25

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076591, ISBN: HB: 9780226076577, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2011
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In light of the very public debate on the federal budget this year between Democrats and Republicans, the economic ramifications of tax policy are now more than ever a focus of national attention. This volume is thus an invaluable tool, publishing cu...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Tour Guide Walking and Talking New York

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226919065, ISBN: HB: 9780226919058, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 8 line illus.

Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start – and that's where the city's tour guides...

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Anthropology

Education

Tales of the Field On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition

Maanen John

ISBN: PB: 9780226849645, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
232 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detai...

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Ecology

Theory of Ecology

Scheiner Samuel M., Willig Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226736860, ISBN: HB: 9780226736853, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
416 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 tables, 30 halftones, 26 line illus.

Despite claims to the contrary, the science of ecology has a long history of building theories. Many ecological theories are mathematical, computational, or statistical, though, and rarely have attempts been made to organize or extrapolate these mode...

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World

Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World

Subrahmanyam Sanjay

ISBN: PB: 9781584659921, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2011
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Sanjay Subrahmanyam's "Three Ways to Be Alien" draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"...

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