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Astronomy

Physical Processes in Circumstellar Disks around Young Stars

Garcia Paulo J. V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226282299, ISBN: HB: 9780226282282, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
440 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 15 halftones, 78 line illus., 12 colour illus.

Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar ima...

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Evolution

History

Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History

Graham Michael H., Parker Joan, Dayton Paul K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Grazian David

ISBN: PB: 9780226306728, ISBN: HB: 9780226305677, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
296 pp., 21.3x14.2 cm

David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has evolved into...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Economic Aspects of Obesity

Grossman Michael, Mocan Naci

ISBN: HB: 9780226310091, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
408 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 98 tables, 4 halftones, 30 line illus.

In the past three decades, the number of obese adults in the United States has doubled and the number of obese children almost tripled, which may lead to increased medical expenditures, productivity loss, and stress on the health care system. Economi...

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America

Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic

Gustafson Sandra M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226311296, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practic...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

Garb Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226282077, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, "Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah" explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion...

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Ancient World

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Gere Cathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226289540, ISBN: HB: 9780226289533, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With "K...

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History

Philosophy

Exploring the Scientific Method Cases and Questions

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226294834, ISBN: HB: 9780226294810, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
424 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 4 tables

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

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Ecology

Knowing Nature Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies

Goldman Mara J., Nadasdy Paul, Turner Matthew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226301419, ISBN: HB: 9780226301402, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 tables, 22 halftones, 8 line illus.

Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives – one focusing on the politics of resource access and the o...

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Philosophy

In Search of Goodness

Grant Ruth W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226306834, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
192 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

The recent spate of books and articles reflecting on the question of evil might make one forget that the question of just what constitutes goodness is no less urgent or perplexing. Everyone wants to think of him- or herself as good. But what does a g...

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