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Cartography

Sidewalk City Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City

Kim Annette Miae

ISBN: HB: 9780226119229, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
264 pp., 22.8x21.5 cm, 32 colour plates, 14 halftones, 7 line drawings

For most, the term "public space" conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world's major cities,...

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Ecology

Serengeti IV Sustaining Biodiversity in a Coupled Human-Natural System

Sinclair Anthony R. E., Metzger Kristine L., Mduma Simon A. R., Fryxell John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226196169, ISBN: HB: 9780226195834, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
832 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 halftones, 100 line drawings, 66 tables

The vast savannas and great migrations of the Serengeti conjure impressions of a harmonious and balanced ecosystem. But in reality, the history of the Serengeti is rife with battles between human and non-human nature. In the 1890s and several times s...

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Astronomy

Technology & Engineering

Seeing Like a Rover How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226155968, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 colour plates, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than t...

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Evolution

Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears

Orians Gordon H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271828, ISBN: HB: 9780226003238, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 55 halftones, 1 line drawing

Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past – we fea...

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Travel

Siena City of Secrets

Tylus Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226207827, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 colour plates, 3 halftones, 3 maps

Jane Tylus's "Siena" is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through...

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History

Stations in the Field A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930

De Bont Raf

ISBN: PB: 9780226142067, ISBN: HB: 9780226141879, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 21

Somin Ilya, Wright Joshua, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226052465, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit o...

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Architecture

Situaciones Urbanas

Cirugeda Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9788461183425, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, February 2015
120 pp., 27.9x15.2 cm, illustrated throughout

Santiago Cirugeda is an atypical architect placed on the verge of political activism and art. Far from a theorist, Cirugeda tests and implements his ideas directly on the ground. Over the past fifteen years, he has developed his work through meticulo...

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Political Science

Business & Economics

Strained Relations US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

Bordo Michael D., Humpage Owen F., Schwartz Anna J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226051482, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 14 tables

During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize...

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Medieval

Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages

Mills Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226169125, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 11 colour plates, 78 halftones

During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical"‌ or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature". How, though, did these categories enter the field of...

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