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Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...
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Atlas of World Hunger
ISBN: HB: 9780226039077, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 35 tables, 47 halftones, 3 line drawings, 103 colour illus.
Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to eat". The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domes...
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Love Poems by Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine
ISBN: HB: 9780226734262, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.
When Pedro Salinas's 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman,...
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Slow Trains Overhead Chicago Poems and Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780226478845, ISBN: HB: 9780226290584, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
120 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience – a chance encounter with a ve...
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Black Ice Score A Parker Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226771090, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
168 pp., 20x13 cm
A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back – with the help of a "specialist" – Pa...
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New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain
ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm
The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...
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Green Eagle Score A Parker Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226771083, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
184 pp., 20x13 cm
Here's Parker – planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the pen, and a smart aleck finance clerk named Devers. Holed up with family in a scrappy little town, the hoisters...
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Wild Justice The Moral Lives of Animals
ISBN: PB: 9780226041636, ISBN: HB: 9780226041612, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones
Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German...
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Sour Lemon Score A Parker Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226771106, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
168 pp., 20x13 cm
Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name's Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who beg...
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Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention
ISBN: PB: 9783593390994, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2010
294 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In "Frames of Friction", Carsten Junker maps out a dazzling panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to explore the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking...
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