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Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences

Harman Oren, Dietrich Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569901, ISBN: HB: 9780226569871, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 line drawings

What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In "Dreamers, Visionaries, and Rev...

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America

Bankers and Empire How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

Hudson Peter James

ISBN: PB: 9780226598116, ISBN: HB: 9780226459110, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. The precursors to institutions like Citibank and J...

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Christianity

Public Health

Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota

Halvorson Britt

ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...

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Ecology

Make It Rain State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America

Harper Kristine C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597928, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 4 tables

Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenome...

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Ecology

Ground Truth A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home

Hineline Mark L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348131, ISBN: HB: 9780226347943, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Before you read this book, you have homework to do. Grab a notebook, go outside, and find a nearby patch of nature. What do you see, hear, feel, and smell? Are there bugs, birds, squirrels, deer, lizards, frogs, or fish, and what are they doing? What...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2017

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226576855, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since it first appeared in 1960, "The Supreme Court Review" (SCR) has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions. SCR is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Cour...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Modern French Jewish Thought Writings on Religion and Politics

Hammerschlag Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781512601862, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the...

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Political Science

Public Good and the Brazilian State Municipal Finance and Public Services in Sao Paulo, 1822-1930

Hanley Anne G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226535074, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 32 tables

Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, cit...

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Literary Criticism

Ecology

Beasts at Bedtime Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature

Heneghan Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226431383, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many childr...

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Political Science

Increasingly United States How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized

Hopkins Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226530376, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 line drawings, 9 tables

In a campaign for state or local office these days, you're as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because Ameri...

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