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Anthropology

Tragic Spirits Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

Buyandelger Manduhai

ISBN: PB: 9780226086569, ISBN: HB: 9780226086552, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 maps, 2 line drawings

The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy – an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets – quickly led to impoverishment, especiall...

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Nature

Life of a Leaf

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226104775, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 47 colour plates, 18 halftones, 10 line illus.

In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In "The Life of a Leaf", Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate ph...

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Psychology

Sites of the Unconscious Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

Mayer Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780226057958, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transfo...

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Women Studies

Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India

Datta Bishakha

ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm

From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Image and Myth A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

Giuliani Luca

ISBN: HB: 9780226297651, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 87 halftones

On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece – but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In "Image and Myth", Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiq...

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History of Art

Liberation of Painting Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Leighten Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780226471389, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 99 halftones, 32 colour illus.

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their...

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Linguistics

Literary Criticism

Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies

Prochazka Martin, Pilny Ondrej

ISBN: PB: 9788024621562, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
140 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collaborative monograph will commemorate the centenary of the Prague English Studies, officially inaugurated in 1912 by the appointment of Vilem Mathesius. Apart from reassessing the...

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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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America

Accidental Diarist A History of the Daily Planner in America

McCarthy Molly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226033358, ISBN: HB: 9780226033211, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 34 halftones

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-gazing since nearly the beginning of the republic. The daily planner – variously called th...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Looking for Strangers The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

Katz Dori

ISBN: HB: 9780226058627, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she migh...

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