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• Author(s): Françoise Meltzer • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: ReligiousWhy are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? W...

• Author(s): Ioanna Laliotou • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe early twentieth century was marked by massive migration of southern Europeans to the United States...

• Author(s): J. Victor Koschmann • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanAfter World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bo...

• Author(s): Angela Zito | Tani E. Barlow • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFor the first time, this volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and met...

• Author(s): Catherine Hall • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralHow did the English get to be English? In Civilising Subjects, Catherine Hall argues th...

• Author(s): Jane J. Mansbridge | Aldon Morris • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralHow can human beings be induced to sacrifice their lives--even one minute...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Carlson • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: AgnosticismHow can one think and name an inconceivable and ineffable God? Christian mystics have approached the prob...

• Author(s): Louis Montrose • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAs a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center...

• Author(s): Peter Loizos • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn the first coprehensive introduction to the nature and development of ethnographic film, ...

• Author(s): Matthew Perkins-McVey • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyArgues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric...

• Author(s): Hélène Mialet • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThese days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a r...

• Author(s): Marco Z. Garrido • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushi...

• Author(s): Sudhir Kakar • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Social ScienceFor decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts ...