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Raven and River

White Carlstrom Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602231504, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
32 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.

"Raven and River" leads young readers on a fantastical journey with a raven across the icy Alaska landscape on the verge of spring. Along the way, the raven's sonorous cry wakes a cast of sleeping woodland creatures, including a bear, a beaver, a har...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Nuptial Deal Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance

Whitehead Jaye Cee

ISBN: PB: 9780226895291, ISBN: HB: 9780226895284, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. Centering on the everyday struggles...

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Jewish Studies

America

New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781611681833, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of...

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America

Thousand-Year Flood The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

Welky David

ISBN: HB: 9780226887166, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones

In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a milli...

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Culture Studies

Philadelphia Barrio The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation

Wherry Frederick F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226894324, ISBN: HB: 9780226894317, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 7 tables, 23 halftones, 2 line illus.

How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? Does gentrificat...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Tour Guide Walking and Talking New York

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226919065, ISBN: HB: 9780226919058, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 8 line illus.

Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start – and that's where the city's tour guides...

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Architecture

Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis

Wolner Edward W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226905617, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 145 halftones

When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects – Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware o...

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Anthropology

Khanty People of the Taiga Survivng the Twentieth Century

Wiget Andrew, Balalaeva Olga

ISBN: PB: 9781602231245, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2011
496 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 15 figures, 80 halftones

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Explorations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903378, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
400 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 105 tables, 73 line illus.

The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, "Explorations in the Economi...

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America

Evolution

Banquet at Delmonico's The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America

Werth Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226893846, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm

In "Banquet at Delmonico's", Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a...

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