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Organizing Locally How the New Decentralists Improve Education, Health Care, and Trade

Fuller Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226246543, ISBN: HB: 9780226246406, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. But the fact i...

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Anthropology

Anti-Witch

Favret-Saada Jeanne

ISBN: PB: 9780990505044, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates

Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and "The Anti-Witch" is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject i...

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History

Limits of Matter Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment

Fors Hjalmar

ISBN: HB: 9780226194998, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, December 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic...

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History of Art

Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings

"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...

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Law

Restitution Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment

Farnsworth Ward

ISBN: PB: 9780226144160, ISBN: HB: 9780226144023, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a sharehold...

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Mammals

Bats A World of Science and Mystery

Fenton M. Brock, Simmons Nancy B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065120, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 342 colour plates, 29 line drawings

There are more than 1,300 species of bats – or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night" consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat se...

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Education

Versions of Academic Freedom From Professionalism to Revolution

Fish Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780226064314, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
192 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full atten...

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General

Tamil Brahmans The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

Fuller C. J., Narasimhan Haripriya

ISBN: PB: 9780226152745, ISBN: HB: 9780226152608, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 tables

A cruise along the streets of Chennai – or Silicon Valley – filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic...

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Political Science

Lies, Passions, and Illusions The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Furet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780226114491, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twent...

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Jewish Studies

Days Between Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season

Falk Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9781611686050, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Jewish High Holidays – the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement – constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaf...

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