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Jewish Studies

Gender Studies

Men's Section Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World

Maryles Sztokman Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611680799, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2011
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this illuminating book, Elana Maryles Sztokman investigates a fascinating new sociological phenomenon: Orthodox Jewish men who connect themselves to egalitarian or quasi-egalitarian religious enterprises. She examines the men who have enabled thes...

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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Ancient World

Multiple Antiquities – Multiple Modernities Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures

Klaniczay Gabor, Werner Michael

ISBN: PB: 9783593391014, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2011
450 pp., 21.2x14.2 cm

Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past...

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Judaism

Christianity

Moses Mendelssohn Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible

Gottlieb Michah

ISBN: PB: 9781584656852, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world for his Jerusalem (1783), the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. While incorporating much...

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America

Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

Fischer Claude S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226251448, ISBN: HB: 9780226251431, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
528 pp., 23x15 cm

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People". But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radical...

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Cartography

Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader

Dym Jordana, Offen Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780226618227, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
360 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 halftones, 118 colour illus.

For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something – a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn't, an...

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Architecture

Marion Mahony Reconsidered

Zanten David

ISBN: HB: 9780226850818, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 65 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961) was an American architect and artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world, designer for Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago studio, and an original member of the Prairie School of architecture. Largely...

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Europe

History

Martian Stranded on Earth Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science

Krementsov Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9780226454122, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones

Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the worke...

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Political Science

Middle East

Mobilizing the Faithful Militant Islamist Groups and Their Constituencies

Malthaner Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593394121, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
260 pp., 22x14 cm

One of the keys to dealing with militant Islamic groups is understanding how they work with, relate to, and motivate their constituencies".Mobilizing the Faithful" offers a pair of detailed case studies – of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya...

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Anthropology

Made to Be Seen Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology

Ruby Jay, Banks Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780226036625, ISBN: HB: 9780226036618, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
432 pp., 25x15 cm, 27 halftones

"Made to be Seen" brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, the contributors to "...

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