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Nature

Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska

Inulak Lum Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Fertility and Jewish Law Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature

Irshai Ronit

ISBN: HB: 9781611682397, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2012
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai exami...

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Business & Economics

Commodity Prices and Markets

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386898, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2011
352 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm, 77 figures, 58 tables

Fluctuations of commodity prices, most notably of oil, capture considerable attention and have been tied to important economic effects, such as inflation and low rates of economic growth".Commodity Prices and Markets" advances our understanding of th...

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Business & Economics

America

Founding Choices American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Irwin Douglas A., Sylla Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226384757, ISBN: HB: 9780226384740, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 17 line illus.

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to com...

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History of Art

Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures

Iversen Margaret, Melville Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones

Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...

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Business & Economics

Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386850, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 figures, 82 tables, 1 halftone

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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Biography & Memoires

Land Beyond A Memoir

Ives Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602230774, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
186 pp., 23x15 cm, 52 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and work...

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