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Genetics

General

Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Panofsky Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...

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Psychology

Boy on the Beach Building Community through Play

Paley Vivian Gussin

ISBN: PB: 9780226150956, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
104 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming waves and conquering monsters. Enter Marianne and doll, Mother and Baby, eager to redefine Eli as a good fath...

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Dogs

Last Walk Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226151007, ISBN: HB: 9780226668468, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 23x15 cm

From the moment when we first open our homes – and our hearts – to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and...

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General

Women Studies

Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe

Parvulescu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...

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Education

General

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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Fiction

Agents and Patients A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137353, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Fiction

From a View to a Death A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226132969, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Fiction

What's Become of Waring A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137186, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Ecology

Peru: Ere-Campuya-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories, Volume 25

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780982841938, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2014
380 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates

In October 2012, an international and multidisciplinary team of experts conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Ere, Campuya, and Algodon watersheds of northern Amazonian Peru. Team members working on the social inventory studied the...

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Chemistry

History

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.

Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...

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