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Peru: Yaguas-Cotuhe

Pitman Nigel, Vriesendorp Corine, Moskovits Debra K., May von Rudolf, Alvira Diana, Wachter Tatzyana, Stotz Douglas F., Campo del Alvaro

ISBN: PB: 9780982841914, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, April 2012
378 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour illus.

In October 2010, a team of experts from Peru, Colombia, and the United States conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and the lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern Peru. The social team assessed the strengths and...

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Political Science

Broken Ballots Will Your Vote Count?

Jones Douglas W., Simons Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9781575866369, ISBN: HB: 9781575866376, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
420 pp., 23x15 cm

For many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws,...

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Fiction

Damsel An Alan Grofield Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770369, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
198 pp., 20x13 cm

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake...

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Jewish Studies

Shuva The Future of the Jewish Past

Kurtzer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9781611682311, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2012
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Modern Jews tend to relate to the past through "history", which relies on empirical demonstration and rational thought, rather than through "memory", which relies on the non-rational architectures of mythology. By now "history" has surpassed "memory"...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678764, ISBN: HB: 9780226678726, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 colour illus.

When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea's waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of li...

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Ecology

Wasted World How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet

Hengeveld Rob

ISBN: HB: 9780226326993, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 line illus.

All systems produce waste as part of a cycle – bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled – though never completely. In "Wasted World", Rob Hengeve...

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America

On Time Delivery The Dog Team Mail Carriers

Schneider William S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231672, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 50 halftones

From the turn of the twentieth century in interior Alaska, dog team mail carriers were charged with maintaining the trail systems and carrying the mail until they were replaced in the late 1930s and '40s by airplane mail service. With the advent and...

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Music

Culture Studies

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2011 Volume 26

Acemoglu Daron, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226002163, ISBN: HB: 9780226002149, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
440 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-sixth edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" continues its tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical contributions that shed light on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics, pushing the frontiers of macroeconomic work in...

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Music

SamulNori Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture

Hesselink Nathan

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226330976, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226330969, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 21 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of trad...

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