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Creating Culture through Health Leadership

Svedin Lina

ISBN: HB: 9781947602601, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...

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Sea Life

Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of the Bird's Head Seascape, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 68

Turak Emre, Katz Laure

ISBN: PB: 9781934151587, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
110 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, Illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of Bird's "Head Seascape" in western Indonesia. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on the flora and fauna...

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History

Poison Trials Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: PB: 9780226744858, ISBN: HB: 9780226744711, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 table

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived – the other died in agony. In...

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Culture Studies

Dialogical Imaginations Aisthesis as Social Perception and New Ideas of Humanism

Zimmermann Michael F., Muller Gernot, Sauer Christian, Schmidt Kerstin, Schmidt Robert, Mariani Zini Fosca

ISBN: PB: 9783037349397, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
736 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 85 halftones, 30 colour plates

We tend to think of imagination as private, originating from our innermost selves – and language as something that is created in communication. Turning this idea on its head, the contributors to "Dialogical Imaginations" start from the provocative pr...

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Fiction

High Wind

Misra Tilottoma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932823, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her family's. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young Jeumon wonders how she should define herself. Is she Assamese, like her father, or Khasi, like her mother? As a...

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Sea Life

Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of Anambas Islands, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 69

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Suharsono, Soemodinoto Arisetiarso, Basuki Riyanto

ISBN: PB: 9781934151594, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of the Anambas Islands in western Indonesia conducted in May 2012. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on...

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Women Studies

Criminology

In Plain Sight Exploring the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict

Campbell Kirsten, Muhlhauser Regina, Zipfel Gaby

ISBN: HB: 9789385932816, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Although it is now well-known how pervasive sexual violence is in situations of war and peace, not enough has been done to work towards its prevention. Compiled by the international research group "Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict", this volume take...

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Architecture

Into the Nest Futures of Affordable Housing

ISBN: PB: 9781947603066, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
160 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 438 line drawings and 111 halftones

Access to affordable housing is one of the most pressing issues facing cities worldwide, as populations grow and real estate prices rise. But the question of what we mean by the term "affordable housing" is far from clear. Designers shy away from the...

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Education

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Eighty-Fifth Edition, 2020-2021

Frankhart Colleen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226742892, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels. Requirements for Certification is a valuable resource, making...

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Technology & Engineering

Rethinking America's Highways A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure

Poole Robert W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226759302, ISBN: HB: 9780226557571, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 14 tables

Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and det...

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