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Nature

Hybrid The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Kingsbury Noel

ISBN: PB: 9780226437132, ISBN: HB: 9780226437040, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
512 pp., 23x15 cm

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrot...

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Anthropology

Africa

Harkis The Wound That Never Heals

Crapanzano Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226118765, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
248 pp., 23x15 cm

In this haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria's war of...

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Anthropology

Hunting the Ethical State The Benkadi Movement of Cote d'Ivoire

Hellweg Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226326542, ISBN: HB: 9780226326535, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
312 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 line illus., 2 figures, 2 tables, 15 halftones

In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Cote d'Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people's protectors as part of a movement th...

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Architecture

Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis

Wolner Edward W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226905617, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 145 halftones

When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects – Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware o...

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Law

Habeas for the Twenty-First Century Uses, Abuses, and the Future of the Great Writ

King Nancy J., Hoffmann Joseph L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226436975, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 2 tables, 8 line illus.

For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time – among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the d...

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Literary Criticism

Humanities and the Dream of America

Harpham Geoffrey Galt

ISBN: PB: 9780226316994, ISBN: HB: 9780226316970, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
256 pp., 21.1x14 cm

In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today's humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrumen...

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History

Histories of Scientific Observation

Daston Lorraine, Lunbeck Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226136783, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 5 colour illus.

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic...

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Music

Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents

Harrison Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226318097, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
352 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 107 musical examples, 1 halftone

The highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Hugo Wolf. In this book, Daniel Harrison builds on nineteenth-century music theory to provide an o...

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Political Science

Hyperpolitics An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts

Calise Mauro, Lowi Theodore J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226091020, ISBN: HB: 9780226091013, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics" is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline's most dis...

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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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