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Evolution

Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins

Alexander Denis R., Numbers Ronald L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608419, ISBN: HB: 9780226608402, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology has been used to justify eugenic programs, forced sterilization, human experimentation, and...

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Women Studies

Natalia Shelikhova Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce

Black Dawn Lea, Petrov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781602230736, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2010
250 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American...

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Philosophy

Women Studies

Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings

Suchon Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226779218, ISBN: HB: 9780226779201, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's wri...

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History

Victorian Popularizers of Science Designing Nature for New Audiences

Lightman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226481197, ISBN: HB: 9780226481180, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 68 halftones

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time "The Origin of Species" was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing gro...

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Political Science

Paradoxes of Integration Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multiethnic America

Oliver J. Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226626635, ISBN: HB: 9780226626628, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 43 line illus.

The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society".The Paradoxes of Integration" helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships amo...

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Evolution

Natural History of Time

Richet Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780226712888, ISBN: HB: 9780226712871, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
481 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 line drawings, 3 tables, 12 halftones

For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abounds with clues. In "A Natural History of Time", geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story...

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Business & Economics

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Relationship to Youth Employment

Gruber Jonathan, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226309484, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 63 tables, 161 line illus.

Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in t...

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Philosophy

Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati

Arrighi Claudia, Cantu Paola de Zan Mauro, Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575865904, ISBN: HB: 9781575865911, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

Logic and Pragmatism features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. The selections in this book – many of which a...

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Poetry

Romey's Order

Riley Atsuro

ISBN: PB: 9780226719443, ISBN: HB: 9780226719429, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
64 pp., 23x15 cm

"Romey's Order" is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records – and...

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Business & Economics

Reforming the Welfare State Recovery and Beyond in Sweden

Freeman Richard B., Swedenborg Birgitta, Topel Robert H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261928, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 54 tables, 75 line illus.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostere...

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