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Health & Wellbeing

Doctoring Traditions Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences

Bihari Mukharji Projit

ISBN: PB: 9780226383132, ISBN: HB: 9780226381794, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 9 line drawings

Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With "Doctoring Tradition", Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that recasting, upendin...

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Philosophy

Powers of Pure Reason Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy

Ferrarin Alfredo

ISBN: PB: 9780226419381, ISBN: HB: 9780226243153, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Critique of Pure Reason" – Kant's First Critique – is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise,...

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Literary Criticism

Castration Story from the Tebtunis Temple Library

Serida Rana

ISBN: HB: 9788763544320, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
122 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 15 plates colour plates

This volume by Rana Serida presents the first complete edition of a hitherto unattested narrative from the Tebtunis temple library in Egypt (1st-2nd century AD). The story seems to have formed part of the so-called Inaros Cycle, a sequence of stories...

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Evolution

Chance in Evolution

Ramsey Grant, Pence Charles H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226401881, ISBN: HB: 9780226401744, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 5 line drawings

Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy...

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Film Studies

Alexander Medvedkin Reader

Medvedkin Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780226296272, ISBN: HB: 9780226296135, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for hi...

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Anthropology

Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak/Do Not Live Without an Elder The Subsistence Way of Life in Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602232976, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2016
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 52 halftones, 4 maps

In October of 2010, six men who were serving on the board of the Calista Elders Council (CEC) gathered in Anchorage with CEC staff to spend three days speaking about the subsistence way of life. The men shared stories of their early years growing up...

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Literary Criticism

That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

Shapiro Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226416953, ISBN: HB: 9780226416816, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

More than a gathering of essays, "That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration" is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written....

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record

Allmon Warren D., Yacobucci Margaret M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226377445, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones, 26 line drawings, 12 tables

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular...

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Literary Criticism

Archaeology & Paleontology

Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections

Christiansen Thomas, Ryholt Kim

ISBN: HB: 9788763543743, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
156 pp., 37.5x29.2 cm, 106 colour plates

Published here for the first time, the "Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections" presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of whi...

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Cultural Studies

Southern Provisions The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine

Shields David S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226422022, ISBN: HB: 9780226141114, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors...

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