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Evolution

Darwin Deleted Imagining a World without Darwin

Bowler Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226068671, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks:What i...

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Poetry

Dreams of Waking An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry, 1400-1700

Barletta Vincent, Bajus Mark L., Malik Cici

ISBN: PB: 9780226011332, ISBN: HB: 9780226011165, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 3 halftones

In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about langua...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Dreaming in French The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226054872, ISBN: HB: 9780226424385, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

A year in Paris... since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision – and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light".Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives o...

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Architecture

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architecture after Images

Dimendberg Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780226151816, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
248 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 31 halftones

In "Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images", Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofi...

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Gender Studies

Documenting Intimate Matters Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America

Foster Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226257471, ISBN: HB: 9780226257464, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control; it has been a way to understand ourselves and others; and it has been at the...

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General

Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Dune's Twisted Edge Journeys in the Levant

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: HB: 9780226923673, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones, 9 line illus.

"How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures... trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once kno...

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Asia

Document Raj Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India

Raman Bhavani

ISBN: HB: 9780226703275, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones

Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in "Document Raj", uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of...

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Poetry

Disposable Camera

Foxman Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780226924113, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
88 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Although "Disposable Camera" is Janet Foxman's first book-length collection, one would not know it given the wry sophistication of the poems found within. The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where Foxman considers the insta...

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Political Science

Democracy and the Left Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America

Huber Evelyne, Stephens John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226356532, ISBN: HB: 9780226356525, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 figures, 36 tables

Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. In...

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