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Colouring Books for Adults

Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book

Schumacher Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780226467047, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 line drawings

To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes... Who wouldn't envy that life? But those in the t...

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Biography & Memoires

Pasolini Requiem Second Edition

Schwartz Barth David

ISBN: PB: 9780226335025, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
656 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post-World War II era. An astonishing polymath – poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director – he exerted profound i...

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Poetry

Little Kisses

Schwartz Lloyd

ISBN: PB: 9780226458274, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
78 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Called "the master of the poetic one-liner" by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignan...

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Oncology

Cancer Companion An Oncologist's Advice on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery

Srivastava Ranjana

ISBN: PB: 9780226479347, ISBN: HB: 9780226306643, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Cancer. It's the diagnosis no one wants to hear. Unfortunately though, these days most of us have known or will know someone who receives it. But what's next? With the diagnosis comes not only fear and uncertainty, but numerous questions, and a lot o...

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General

Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences

Sayer Derek

ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...

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Ecology

Politics of Scale A History of Rangeland Science

Sayre Nathan F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226083254, ISBN: HB: 9780226083117, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production –...

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History

Asia

Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China

Schmalzer Sigrid

ISBN: HB: 9780226330150, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 30 halftones

In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world – and forestall the spread of more "red", or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where mode...

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Literary Criticism

Biography & Memoires

Long Saturday Conversations

Steiner George, Adler Laure

ISBN: HB: 9780226350387, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm

George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else "writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing", while the N...

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Political Science

Secessionist Rule Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority

Smolnik Franziska

ISBN: PB: 9783593506296, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
425 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 3 maps, 7 tables

In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only parti...

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Education

Perspectives from the Disciplines Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781575867403, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this companion volume to "Bricks and Mortar", Jeffrey Scarborough and Raymond Ravaglia present a series of essays written by senior instructors and division heads at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). Written from the perspective of the onlin...

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