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Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes Emotional Rhythms in Social Movement Groups

Effler Erika Summers

ISBN: PB: 9780226188669, ISBN: HB: 9780226188652, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 4 line illus.

Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? To explore the...

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Music

Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles

Somfai Laszlo

ISBN: PB: 9780226768137, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
416 pp., 24x15.5 cm, 220 music examples

Interest in the authentic performance of early music has grown dramatically in recent years, and scholarly investigation has particularly benefited the study of keyboard music of the classical period. In this landmark publication, the most comprehens...

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Linguistics

Reality Exploration and Discovery Pattern Interaction in Language and Life

Uyechi Linda Ann, Wee Lian-Hee

ISBN: PB: 9781575865881, ISBN: HB: 9781575865898, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
438 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-five papers in this volume present current analyses of a variety of data and, more significantly, illustrate the various analytical tools available to linguists in the quest for deeper comprehension of the puzzles, questions, and problems...

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Christianity

Medieval

Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession Canonists, Civilians, and Courts

Brundage James A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226077604, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
560 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1...

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Earth Sciences

Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

Brunner Ronald D., Lynch Amanda H.

ISBN: PB: 9781878220974, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2010
404 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

While recent years have seen undeniable progress in international acknowledgement both of the dangers of climate change and the importance of working to mitigate it, little has actually been done. Emissions continue to rise, and even the ambitious ta...

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Current Affairs

Architecture

Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America

Vanderbilt Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones

On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...

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Women Studies

Before the Storm A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942

Martin Fredericka

ISBN: PB: 9781602230767, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
385 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones

From June of 1941 through the following summer, Fredericka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and "Before the Storm...

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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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Linguistics

Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages

Daniele Godard

ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm

"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...

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Business & Economics

Law and Happiness

Posner Eric A., Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676012, ISBN: HB: 9780226676005, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm

Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness – or "hedonics" – has developed into a formal field of inquiry,...

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