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Methods That Matter Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

Hay M. Cameron

ISBN: PB: 9780226328669, ISBN: HB: 9780226328522, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 15 figures, 10 tables

To do research that really makes a difference – the authors of this book argue – social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, "Methods that...

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Ecology

Social Lives of Forests Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence

Hecht Susanna B., Morrison Kathleen D., Padoch Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780226322681, ISBN: HB: 9780226322667, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 13 line drawings, 19 tables

Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face – including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation – are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past...

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Education

Women Studies

Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success

Hamilton

ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables

Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...

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Photography

Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015

Havel Jan, Lab Filip

ISBN: PB: 9788024630175, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
258 pp., 29.2x19 cm, 180 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Pavel Dias's work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was...

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Mammals

Wattana An Orangutan in Paris

Herzfeld Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226168593, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

She likes tea, sews, draws on papers and is a self-taught master of tying and untying knots. But she is not a crafty woman of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives in the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it is in Paris where Chris H...

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Political Science

Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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Fiction

Scavengers Stories

Hagenston Becky

ISBN: PB: 9781602232877, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A woman obsessed with reality TV encounters a sorority girl who has embarked on a very personal scavenger hunt. A man unexpectedly discovers that his father – a seemingly rational man – believes, seriously, in lake monsters. A woman whose husband has...

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America

Making Sense of the Americas How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond

Hansen Jan, Helm Christian, Reichherzer Frank

ISBN: PB: 9783593504803, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical repr...

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Anthropology

Siege of the Spirits Community and Polity in Bangkok

Herzfeld Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226331614, ISBN: HB: 9780226331584, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 map

What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story o...

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History of Art

Gender Studies

25 Women Essays on Their Art

Hickey Dave

ISBN: HB: 9780226333151, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
192 pp., 22x18.4 cm, 26 colour plates, 1 halftone

Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging". Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer". Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero". There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey – and...

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