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America

Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909

Nickerson Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps

In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...

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Business & Economics

Global Market Strategies How to Turn Your Company into a Successful International Enterprise

Neubert Michael

ISBN: PB: 9783593399454, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 40 halftones, 14 tables

Good international trade relations are a must for any modern enterprise, regardless of its size. But without a sound global market strategy, entry onto the international scene is risky and can at worst lead to a company's demise. In this book, Michae...

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Evolution

Plant Physics

Niklas Karl J., Spatz Hanns-Christof

ISBN: PB: 9780226150819, ISBN: HB: 9780226586328, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 44 halftones, 40 line illus.

From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be...

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Philosophy

Romantic Absolute Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804

Nassar Dalia

ISBN: HB: 9780226084060, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic amon...

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History

Observing by Hand Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century

Nasim Omar W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226084374, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 colour plates

Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on hand...

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Europe

Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada

Nunez Muley Francisco

ISBN: PB: 9780226103037, ISBN: HB: 9780226547268, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 2 maps

Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century – including the forced conversion of its native Muslim populatio...

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Literary Criticism

Hinduism

Mahabharata A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

Narayan R. K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226051659, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"The Mahabharata" tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to des...

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Education

Realizing Educational Rights Advancing School Reform through Courts and Communities

Newman Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780226071749, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Realizing Educational Rights", Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how...

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America

Tolerant Populists, Second Edition Kansas Populism and Nativism

Nugent Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226054087, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the or...

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Philosophy

Michael Polanyi and His Generation Origins of the Social Construction of Science

Nye Mary Jo

ISBN: PB: 9780226103174, ISBN: HB: 9780226610634, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line illus.

In "Michael Polanyi and His Generation", Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially...

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