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Evolution

Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm

Donohue Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226157719, ISBN: HB: 9780226157702, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
512 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 tables, 34 halftones, 70 line illus.

Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands – the giant tortoises and Darwin's fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most famil...

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Law

Death of the American Trial

Burns Robert P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226081274, ISBN: HB: 9780226081267, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
200 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In "The Death of the American Trial", distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's greatest achievements. As a practice that is adapted f...

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Poetry

Devotions

Smith Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226764351, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
104 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur....

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America

Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable American Reburials

Kammen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226423302, ISBN: HB: 9780226423296, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grav...

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Linguistics

Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces

Kempson Ruth, Gregoromichelaki Eleni, Howes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781575866147, ISBN: HB: 9781575866154, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
402 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration o...

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Business & Economics

Demography and the Economy

Shoven John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226754727, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
448 pp., 23.2x15.6 cm, 61 tables, 140 line illus.

Demographics is a vital field of study for understanding social and economic change and it has attracted attention in recent years as concerns have grown over the aging populations of developed nations. Demographic studies help make sense of key aspe...

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Europe

Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness

Wortman Richard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226907758, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal...

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Fiction

Deadly Edge A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770918, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
230 pp., 20x13 cm

"Deadly Edge" bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself – and his woman, Claire – menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Parker has a score to settle while Claire'...

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Ancient World

Death in Babylon Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226037363, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
272 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 halftones

Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronic...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Debate of the "Romance of the Rose"

Pizan Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780226670133, ISBN: HB: 9780226670126, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read "Romance of the Rose" for its blatant and unwarran...

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