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Cartoon Art

Mutants and Mystics Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271484, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
376 pp., 21.5x15 cm, 60 colour illus.

In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men", th...

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Nature

Plant Sensing and Communication

Karban Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226264707, ISBN: HB: 9780226264677, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line drawings, 6 tables

The news that a flowering weed – mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) – can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first...

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General

Fatal Isolation The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

Keller Richard C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226251110, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 2 line drawings

In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the...

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Cartography

Sidewalk City Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City

Kim Annette Miae

ISBN: HB: 9780226119229, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
264 pp., 22.8x21.5 cm, 32 colour plates, 14 halftones, 7 line drawings

For most, the term "public space" conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world's major cities,...

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General

Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Klinenberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226276182, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Mete...

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Travel

Travels into Print Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

Keighren Innes M., Withers Charles W. J., Bell Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780226429533, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 25 halftones, 1 table

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry – products of the complex, and often contested, relat...

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America

My Dear Molly The Civil War Letters of Captain James Love

Kodner Molly

ISBN: HB: 9781883982829, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 140 halftones

The Missouri History Museum archives are bursting with collections that provide firsthand accounts of both historic and everyday moments, but when archivist M. E. Kodner came across the James Love letters, she knew she had discovered something extrao...

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Computer Science & Internet

Design

Interface Experience A User's Guide

Kimon Keramidas

ISBN: PB: 9781941792025, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2015
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates

The last forty years have seen the rise of the personal computer, a device that has enabled ordinary individuals to access a tool that had been exclusive to laboratories and corporate technology centers. During this time, computers have become smalle...

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Poetry

Anyone

Klug Nate

ISBN: PB: 9780226196954, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Milton's God Where I-95 meets The Pike, a ponderous thunderhead flowered – stewed a minute, then flipped like a flash card, tattered edges crinkling in, linings so dark with excessive bright that, standing, waiting, at the overpass edge, the onl...

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Philosophy

Freedom Beyond Sovereignty Reconstructing Liberal Individualism

Krause Sharon R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226234694, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to be free? We invoke the word frequently, yet the freedom of countless Americans is compromised by social inequalities that systematically undercut what they are able to do and to become. If we are to remedy these failures of freed...

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