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Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin

Klemek Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones

"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...

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History of Art

Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

Kirkland Sean D.

ISBN: PB: 9780978907457, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 1 colour plate, 34 halftones

The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist's met...

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Anthropology

Frontier Romance Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity

Kleinfeld Judith

ISBN: PB: 9781602231894, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2012
90 pp., 23x15 cm

Anyone curious about what drew people like Christopher McCandless (the subject of "Into the Wild") and John Muir to Alaska will find nuanced answers in "Frontier Romance", Judith Kleinfeld's thoughtful study of the iconic American love of the frontie...

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Dogs

Sport

Skijor with Your Dog

Kaynor Carol, Hoe-Raitto Mari

ISBN: PB: 9781602231863, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2012
318 pp., 25x15 cm

Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone – and almost any breed of dog – can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this po...

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Political Science

America

American Diplomacy Fiftieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition

Kennan George F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226431482, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
224 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm

For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of a...

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Nature

Floating Gold A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

Kemp Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226430362, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
232 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 21 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre...

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Literary Criticism

Petrarch A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

Kirkham Victoria, Maggi Armando

ISBN: PB: 9780226437422, ISBN: HB: 9780226437415, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age".Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the C...

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Anthropology

Reproductive Technologies as Global Form Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters

Knecht Michi, Klotz Maren, Beck Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593391007, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2012
320 pp., 22x14 cm

In the thirty years since the first "test-tube baby", in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in developed nations – and, increasingly, throughout the world. This col...

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History

Philosophy

Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50th Anniversary Edition

Kuhn Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226458120, ISBN: HB: 9780226458113, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its i...

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Islam

Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proof of Prophecy A Parallel Arabic-English Text

Khalidi Tarif

ISBN: HB: 9780842527873, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2012
400 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is the record of a debate that took place in the early tenth century between the famous Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim al-Razi and the even more celebrated Abu Bakr al-Razi, a physician and philosopher who was known to medieval Europe as "Rha...

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