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Ecology

Wild Hope On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

Balmford Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226036014, ISBN: HB: 9780226035970, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any goo...

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America

Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston

Barr Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...

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Gender Studies

Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: PB: 9780226211725, ISBN: HB: 9780226038353, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone – or oneself – was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic ele...

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Anthropology

Behold the Black Caiman A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

Bessire Lucas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175577, ISBN: HB: 9780226140896, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In 2004, one of the world's last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers' bulldozers. "Behold the Black Caiman" is Lucas Bessire's intimate chronicle...

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Fiction

Nightwatches of Bonaventura

Bonaventura

ISBN: PB: 9780226141565, ISBN: HB: 9780226141428, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura", "The Nightwatches of Bonaventura" is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. The narrator and antihero is not Bonaventura but a night watchman named...

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Business & Economics

Human Capital in History The American Record

Boustan Leah Platt, Frydman Carola, Margo Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226163895, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2014
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 61 line drawings, 49 tables

America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capita...

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Poetry

To Forget Venice

Boyers Peg

ISBN: PB: 9780226181264, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"To Forget Venice" is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is b...

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History

Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Philosophy

Nation as Network Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship

Bernal Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226144818, ISBN: HB: 9780226144788, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when international migration is coupled with digital media, making it easy for people to be politically active in a nation from outside its borde...

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Law

Kafka's Law "The Trial" and American Criminal Justice

Burns Robert P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226167473, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Trial" is actually closer to reality than fantasy as far as the client's perception of the system. It's supposed to be a fantastic allegory, but it's reality. It's very important that lawyers read it and understand this".Justice" Anthony Kennedy...

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