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All Edge Inside the New Workplace Networks

Spinuzzi Clay

ISBN: HB: 9780226236964, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 9 tables

Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an accelerating knowledge economy and sophisticated communication networks. These changes have forced a mass rethinking of the way we coordinate, collaborate, and c...

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America

Beyond Redemption Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War

Emberton Carole

ISBN: PB: 9780226269993, ISBN: HB: 9780226024271, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worke...

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Business & Economics

Meaning of Money in China and the United States The 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Martin Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780990505020, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 1 halftone, 1 figure

When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the meaning of money in China and the United States. Though the topic is of perennial interest – and never more so than...

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Poetry

I Follow in the Dust She Raises

Martin Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781602232556, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"I Follow in the Dust She Raises" is a collection of deeply personal poems born from a life sharply observed. Martin takes readers from the mountains of the West to the shores of Alaska, as she delves into the rippling depth of childhood experiences,...

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Christianity

Revival and Awakening American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism

Becker Adam H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226145310, ISBN: HB: 9780226145280, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring 2015, Issue 38

Vilalta Helena, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Cahill Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9781846381560, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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Anthropology

Data Now Bigger and Better!

Bell Genevieve, Boellstorff Tom, Gregg Melissa, Maurer Bill, Seaver Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780984201068, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2015
104 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Data is too big to be left to the data analysts".Data: Now Bigger and Better!" brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology – frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinsh...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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History

Stations in the Field A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930

De Bont Raf

ISBN: PB: 9780226142067, ISBN: HB: 9780226141879, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird...

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Anthropology

Magic A Theory from the South

de Martino Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780990505099, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is te...

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