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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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Plunder Squad A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770932, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
198 pp., 20x13 cm

"Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left". When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee agains...

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Fiction

Slayground A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770925, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 20x13 cm

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalcula...

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Anthropology

World

Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany

Evans Andrew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...

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Christianity

Greater Than a Mother's Love Kinship in the Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi

Cavazos-Gonzalez Gilberto

ISBN: PB: 9781589662131, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, September 2010
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although there are several studies dedicated to the lives of Francis and Clare of Assisi, Gilberto Cavazos-Gonzalez's "Greater Than a Mother's Love" is the first to investigate their spirituality in the context of family relationships. He delves into...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Islands of Privacy

Nippert-Eng Christena E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226586533, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables, 2 halftones

Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gathering tools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory, concerns over the use and abuse of personal information are undeniable. But t...

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Political Science

Strengthening Peace in Post-Civil War States Transforming Spoilers into Stakeholders

Hoddie Matthew, Hartzell Caroline A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226351254, ISBN: HB: 9780226351247, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 1 map, 1 line illus.

Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars – from Yugoslavia to Congo – frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere. Given the inherent fragility of civil war peace agreements, innovative approache...

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Anthropology

Heart for the Work Journeys through an African Medical School

Wendland Claire L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226893273, ISBN: HB: 9780226893259, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables, 1 halftone

Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as "A Heart for the Work" makes...

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Poetry

Ice Floe New & Selected Poems

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602230835, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ice Floe", the celebrated and award-winning journal of circumpolar poetry, is here reborn as an annual book series. This first volume features the best of the journal's first seven years, along with evocative new poetry from Alaska, Canada, Iceland,...

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America

Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...

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