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Bicycling through Paradise Historical Rides Around Cincinnati

Smythe Kathleen, Hanlin Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781947602755, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, November 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Bicycling Through Paradise is a collection of twenty historically themed cycling tours broken into 10-mile segments centered around Cincinnati, Ohio. Written by two longtime cyclists – one a professor of history and one an architect – the book is an...

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History

Lost Species Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums

Kemp Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226513706, ISBN: HB: 9780226386218, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongo...

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Christianity

America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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Genetics

Blood Relations Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics

Bangham Jenny

ISBN: PB: 9780226740034, ISBN: HB: 9780226739977, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human...

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Contemporary Art

Years Now

Umolu Yesomi

ISBN: PB: 9780578643441, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2020
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 30 halftones

The 2020 exhibition Harold Mendez: The years now presented a suite of existing and newly commissioned works – including photography, sculpture and sound – by visual artist Harold Mendez at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Mendez's practi...

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Mammals

Ecology

Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park

Smith Douglas W., Stahler Daniel R., MacNulty Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226728346, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 colour plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings

In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world's first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated af...

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Literary Criticism

Polonica

Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel

Szary-Matywiecka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024645322, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely co...

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Business & Economics

Capitalism and Freedom

Friedman Milton

ISBN: PB: 9780226734798, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 50...

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Ecology

Philosophy

Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity

Testot Laurent

ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...

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Hinduism

Chandrabati's Ramayan

ISBN: HB: 9789385932946, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. I...

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