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Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/The Entire Surface of the Land is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602234222, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 124 colour plates

In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free...

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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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Jewish Studies

Yehuda Amichai The Making of Israel's National Poet

Scharf Gold Nili

ISBN: PB: 9781684580002, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2019
468 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai's early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvr...

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Photography

Yasuhiro Ishimoto Someday, Chicago

Alinder Jasmine, Tain John

ISBN: PB: 9780985096083, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, November 2018
152 pp., 22.9x26.7 cm, 30 colour plates, 90 halftones

This book examines the work of US-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012) through its connections to Chicago, where he lived for over a decade and returned to repeatedly throughout his life. Long celebrated in Japan as one of the most influen...

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Amazing Nature

Year with Nature An Almanac

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226449708, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 150 halftones

"A Year with Nature" is an almanac like none you've ever seen: combining science and aesthetics, it is a daily affirmation of the extraordinary richness of biodiversity and our enduring beguilement by its beauty. With a text by herpetologist and natu...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Young Descartes Nobility, Rumor, and War

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226462967, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am". But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of h...

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Fiction

Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Yearnings of the Soul Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah

Garb Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226295800, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Yearnings of the Soul", Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold intera...

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Jewish Studies

Military

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

Cohen Hillel

ISBN: PB: 9781611688115, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as y...

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