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Education

Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

Adely Fida

ISBN: PB: 9780226006918, ISBN: HB: 9780226006901, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. T...

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America

Riches, Rivals and Radicals 100 Years of Museums in America

Schwarzer Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781933253756, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, March 2013
263 pp., 29.2x23 cm, 200 colour illus.

Highly illustrated, exhaustively researched, and eminently readable, this new edition of "Riches, Rivals and Radicals" describes the rise of the museum in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present – a story that parallels hist...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2012 Volume 13

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226053585, ISBN: HB: 9780226053448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm

There is considerable debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This debate has intensified as...

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America

Republic Afloat Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America

Raffety Matthew Taylor

ISBN: HB: 9780226924007, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at...

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Poetry

Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish

Weiner Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226017013, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
80 pp., 21.6x14 cm

At the heart of Joshua Weiner's new book is an extended poem with a bold political dimension and great intellectual ambition. It fuses the poet's point of view with Walt Whitman's to narrate a decentered time-traveling collage about Rock Creek, a tri...

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Anthropology

Braided Worlds

Gottlieb Alma, Graham Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226305288, ISBN: HB: 9780226305271, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps

In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning m...

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Jewish Studies

Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

Geary Patrick J.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683912, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2013
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinatin...

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Anthropology

Treadwell Gold An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin

Kelly Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602231184, ISBN: HB: 9781602230750, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
271 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 80 halftones

A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and w...

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Women Studies

Europe

Panaceia's Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: HB: 9780226925387, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 15 halftones

"Panaceia's Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicin...

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Education

Political Science

Education, Justice, and Democracy

Allen Danielle S., Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226012766, ISBN: HB: 9780226012629, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused...

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