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Education

Conflicting Landscapes American Schooling / Alaska Natives

Bates Clifton, Oleksa Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9781578333967, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 halftones

This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wide-ranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of changing philosophies of schooling and their effect on generations of Alaska Native st...

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Education

Southern Stalemate Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Bonastia Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226063898, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citize...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Brintnall Kent L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...

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Education

General

Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite

Beasley Maya A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

Bloor David

ISBN: PB: 9780226060958, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 97 halftones

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership o...

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Poetry

Ziggurat

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226035666, ISBN: HB: 9780226035642, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
88 pp., 23x15 cm

In his first book of poems since his highly acclaimed "June-tree", Peter Balakian continues to define himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with cata...

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Linguistics

Language, Proof, and Logic Second Edition

Barker-Plummer David, Barwise Jon, Etchemendy John

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781575866321, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2011
650 pp., 23x20.5 cm

This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for a wide range of courses, from first logic courses for undergraduates (philosophy, mathematics, and computer science) to a first graduate logic course. The accompan...

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Law

Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It

Burk Dan L., Lemley Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226080628, ISBN: HB: 9780226080611, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables

Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system currently stands, diverse industries from pharmaceuticals to software to semiconductors are all governed by the same rules even though they innovate very differentl...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 25

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076591, ISBN: HB: 9780226076577, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2011
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In light of the very public debate on the federal budget this year between Democrats and Republicans, the economic ramifications of tax policy are now more than ever a focus of national attention. This volume is thus an invaluable tool, publishing cu...

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Photography

Anthropology

Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing

Barker James H., Fienup-Riordan Ann, Arevgaq John Theresa

ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones

Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...

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