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Psychology

Philosophy

Memory Fragments of a Modern History

Winter Alison

ISBN: PB: 9780226084541, ISBN: HB: 9780226902586, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you're remembering incorrectly? And where have...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Making the News Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting

Boydstun Amber E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065571, ISBN: HB: 9780226065434, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 line drawings, 14 tables

Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is...

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Gender Studies

America

Meet Joe Copper Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

Basso Matthew L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044194, ISBN: HB: 9780226038865, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun". So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, field...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 47, 2012

ISBN: PB: 9780226059129, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 284 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 47 includes essays on the Tell Basta Treausur...

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Philosophy

Michael Polanyi and His Generation Origins of the Social Construction of Science

Nye Mary Jo

ISBN: PB: 9780226103174, ISBN: HB: 9780226610634, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line illus.

In "Michael Polanyi and His Generation", Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially...

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Anthropology

Buddhism

Monastery in Time The Making of Mongolian Buddhism

Humphrey Caroline, Ujeed Hurelbaatar

ISBN: PB: 9780226031903, ISBN: HB: 9780226031873, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 6 halftones

"A Monastery in Time" is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery – the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia – from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural...

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Education

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities

Bloomfield Cucchiara Maia

ISBN: PB: 9780226016825, ISBN: HB: 9780226016658, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 2 figures, 9 tables

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up – in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a s...

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Jewish Studies

Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958

Behar Moshe, Ben-Dor Benite Zvi

ISBN: PB: 9781584658856, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticol...

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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Matt Saunders Parallel Plot

Saunders Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.

Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...

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Business & Economics

Earth Sciences

Managing Natural Catastrophies Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy – the Hawai'ian Example

Reissberg Anja Christina

ISBN: PB: 9783593396217, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 halftones

Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide, their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before? Globalization has led to more direct linkages...

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