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Evolution

History

Collecting Experiments Making Big Data Biology

Strasser Bruno J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226635040, ISBN: HB: 9780226634999, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond, to produce new knowledge. But as the amount of information in databases explodes,...

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Anthropology

Music

Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics

Camal Jerome

ISBN: PB: 9780226631776, ISBN: HB: 9780226631639, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings

In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...

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Political Science

Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights

Beienburg Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226632131, ISBN: HB: 9780226631943, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Colorado's legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado's legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many...

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Europe

Revolution Structure and Meaning in World History

Arjomand Said Amir

ISBN: HB: 9780226026831, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

A revolution is a discontinuity: one political order replaces another, typically through whatever violent means are available. Modern theories of revolutions tend neatly to bracket the French Revolution of 1789 with the fall of the Soviet Union two h...

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Anthropology

Rites of Passage Second Edition

van Gennep Arnold

ISBN: PB: 9780226629490, ISBN: HB: 9780226629353, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, "The Rites of Passage", has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark b...

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Sport

Rumble in the Jungle Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage

Erenberg Lewis A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226059433, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

The 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an o...

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Buddhism

Seeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism

Jaffe Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226391151, ISBN: HB: 9780226391144, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 1 table

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated "Seeking Sakyamuni", Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the...

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Anthropology

Gender Studies

Fada Boredom and Belonging in Niger

Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226624341, ISBN: HB: 9780226624204, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men bored and id...

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Literary Criticism

Some Words of Jane Austen

Tave Stuart M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226633398, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Jane Austen's readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But for most readers, her values have been a phenomenon more felt than fully apprehended. In this book, Stuart M. Tave identifies and expla...

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Music

Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis

Christensen Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226626925, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 halftones

"Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis" explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist Francois-Joseph Fetis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the...

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