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Earth Sciences

On Sea Ice

Weeks Willy

ISBN: HB: 9781602230798, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
664 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 354 graphs and figures

Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere – and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With "On Sea Ice", geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a n...

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Earth Sciences

Culture Studies

Authors of the Storm Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226249537, ISBN: HB: 9780226249520, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 3 halftones

Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, "the weather" is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government me...

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Asia

Technology & Engineering

Nucleus and Nation Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India

Anderson Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226019758, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
736 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 9 tables, 16 halftones

In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British...

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Culture Studies

Medieval

Modulated Scream Pain in Late Medieval Culture

Cohen Esther

ISBN: HB: 9780226112671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrong doing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain – fro...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645490, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Spirit of the Laws" – Montesquieu's huge, complex, and enormously influential work – is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values...

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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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Philosophy

Physics of The Healing A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes

Avicenna

ISBN: HB: 9780842527477, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, May 2010
1168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Avicenna's "Physics" is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, "The Healing". Avicenna's reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understa...

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Europe

Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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Education

Nature

Teaching Children Science Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

Kohlstedt Sally Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9780226449906, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the fir...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Collins Jane L., Mayer Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226114064, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 line drawings, 3 tables, 16 halftones

"Both Hands Tied" studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisc...

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