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History of Art

Cupperi Walter

ISBN: HB: 9783037343746, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones

In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, however, replicas and multiples have c...

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Europe

Military

Disease, War, and the Imperial State The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War

Charters Erica

ISBN: HB: 9780226180007, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map, 1 table

The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of Eu...

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Biography & Memoires

Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights

Claggett Charles E. Jr., Weiss Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9781883982799, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His doctors doubted he would live longer than a few days, and, if he survived, the hope for his quality of life would be minimal. How d...

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Business & Economics

Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior

Colarelli Stephen M., Arvey Richard D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226127156, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings

In recent years, evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics have emerged as prominent theoretical perspectives within the social sciences. Yet despite broad levels of commonality between the disciplines – including an emphasis on adaptation, evo...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Indian Women in the House of Fiction

Chanda Geetanjali Singh

ISBN: PB: 9789383074730, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
348 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

In her detailed readings of a wide range of Indian writers – including Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Nair, Jhumpa Lahiri and many others – Geetanjali Singh Chanda focuses on domestic spaces in women's fiction. The house is not merely a backdro...

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General

Trapped in America's Safety Net One Family's Struggle

Campbell Andrea Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226140445, ISBN: HB: 9780226140308, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 figures, 1 table

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived – and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends....

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Ecology

Stitching the West Back Together Conservation of Working Landscapes

Charnley Susan, Sheridan Thomas E., Nabhan Gary P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226165714, ISBN: HB: 9780226165684, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 5 tables

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranche...

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Business & Economics

Economics of Food Price Volatility

Chavas Jean-Paul, Hummels David, Wright Brian D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226128924, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2014
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 53 line drawings, 55 tables

There has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers. Before policy makers can design schemes to reduce food price uncertainty or ameliorate its effects, they m...

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Music

Triumph of Pleasure Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

Cowart Georgia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211558, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 16 musical examples, 3 tables

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet...

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America

Kiska The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Coyle Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232372, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour plates, 77 halftones

Alaska's windswept Aleutian Island chain arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska Island, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. Few have the opportu...

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