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Middle East

Learned Patriots Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

Yalcinkaya M. Alper

ISBN: HB: 9780226184203, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the "Great Powers" of Europe. The Ottoman Empire was no exception: Ottomans from all walks of life – e...

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Photography

Rediscovering Jacob Riis Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Yochelson Bonnie, Czitrom Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226182865, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
296 pp., 27.9x15.2 cm, 96 halftones

Before publishing his pioneering book "How the Other Half Lives" – a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city's population – Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the...

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History

Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

Yeo Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226106564, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In "Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science", Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important...

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Earth Sciences

General

Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China

Yen Shen Grace

ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 1 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971322, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
576 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line illus.

nthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West" t...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 2 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971346, ISBN: HB: 9780226971339, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 3 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971377, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 4 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971391, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line illus.

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

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General

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Yack Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226944678, ISBN: HB: 9780226944661, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of...

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Buddhism

Shots in the Dark Japan, Zen, and the West

Yamada Shoji

ISBN: PB: 9780226947655, ISBN: HB: 9780226947648, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen He...

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