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Until Choice Do Us Part Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era

Eby Clare Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9780226085838, ISBN: HB: 9780226085661, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

For centuries, people have been thinking and writing – and fiercely debating – about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a too...

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Ecology

Consumed Food for a Finite Planet

Elton Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226093628, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same tim...

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Music

More Important Than the Music A History of Jazz Discography

Epperson Bruce D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226067537, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Today, jazz is considered high art, America's national music, and the catalog of its recordings – its discography – is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the inte...

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Political Science

Birth of Territory

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226202570, ISBN: HB: 9780226202563, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts...

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Sea Life

Swordfish A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator

Ellis Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226922904, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 51 halftones, 3 line illus.

A perfect fish in the evolutionary sense, the broadbill swordfish derives its name from its distinctive bill – much longer and wider than the bill of any other billfish – which is flattened into the sword we all recognize. And though the majesty and...

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Physics

Astronomy

Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space

Everett Allen, Roman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226045481, ISBN: HB: 9780226224985, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 9 line illus.

Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for...

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Fiction

Oil and Water A Novel

Evans Mei Mei

ISBN: PB: 9781602232006, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2013
260 pp., 23x15 cm

What happens when the American dream collides head-on with a nation's dependence on fossil fuels? "Oil and Water", a novel by Mei Mei Evans, focuses on precisely this question. Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a w...

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Business & Economics

Left Behind Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

Edwards Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780226004662, ISBN: HB: 9780226184784, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources – and a history of productivity and wealth – in recent decades the region has fallen further and further b...

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Political Science

Timeline of Presidential Elections How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter

Erikson Robert S., Wlezien Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226922157, ISBN: HB: 9780226922140, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 55 line illus.

With the 2012 presidential election upon us, will voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or will the race for the next president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effe...

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Contemporary Art

Precarious Worlds Contemporary Art from Germany

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316345, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2012
72 pp., 33x24 cm, 20 colour illus.

Taking as its impetus a group of important new acquisitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, "Precarious Worlds" explores thematic connections between some of the most influential artists working in Germany today. Works by Franz Ackermann, Cosi...

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