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Houston, We Have a Narrative Why Science Needs Story

Olson Randy

ISBN: PB: 9780226270845, ISBN: HB: 9780226270708, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 9 line drawings

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that blockbu...

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Philosophy

History of Art

Modular Objects Civil Society

Oppenheimer Geof

ISBN: HB: 9780945323235, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, May 2015
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 143 halftones

"Modular Objects Civil Society" creatively reimagines the ways in which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they inhabit – and thereby cultivate. At its heart, the book is a reflection on the performance of living...

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Business & Economics

Resistance to Innovation Its Sources and Manifestations

Oreg Shaul, Goldenberg Jacob

ISBN: HB: 9780226632605, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 13 line drawings, 23 tables

Every year, about 25,000 new products are introduced in the United States. Most of these products fail – at considerable expense to the companies that produce them. Such failures are typically thought to result from consumers' resistance to innovatio...

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Evolution

Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears

Orians Gordon H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271828, ISBN: HB: 9780226003238, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 55 halftones, 1 line drawing

Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past – we fea...

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Contemporary Art

Varda Caivano The Density of the Actions

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548656, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2015
112 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

This catalogue was published on the occasion of Varda Caivano's exhibition The Density of the Actions, February 22 – April 19, 2015 at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. The book features texts by Barry Schwabsky, Paula van den B...

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General

Philosophy

Walls Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Oles Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226199245, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pe...

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Anthropology

Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique

Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226153865, ISBN: HB: 9780226153728, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. As Juan Obarrio shows, however,...

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Cartography

Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Olshin Benjamin B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226149820, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 23 halftones, 3 line drawings

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled "Il Milione", later known as "The Travels of Marco Polo". While Polo's writings would g...

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Europe

Public Health

Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France

Osborne Michael A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226114521, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France" examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was i...

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Nature

Bitter Roots The Search for Healing Plants in Africa

Osseo-Asare Abena Dove

ISBN: PB: 9780226086026, ISBN: HB: 9780226085524, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to un...

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