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Archaeology & Paleontology
Earth Sciences
Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856
O'Connor Ralph
ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...
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Europe
Military
In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949
Olick Jeffrey K.
ISBN: PB: 9780226103341, ISBN: HB: 9780226626383, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Soci...
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Linguistics
Computational Introduction to Linguistics Describing Language in Plain Prolog
Ojeda Almerindo E.
ISBN: PB: 9781575866598, ISBN: HB: 9781575866574, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
400 pp., 23x15 cm
In this book, Almerindo E. Ojeda offers a unique perspective on linguistics by discussing developing computer programs that will assign particular sounds to particular meanings and, conversely, particular meanings to particular sounds. Since these as...
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Middle East
Jewish Studies
When Peace Is Not Enough How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice
Omer Atalia
ISBN: PB: 9780226008103, ISBN: HB: 9780226008073, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
376 pp., 23x15 cm
The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland. Born in adversity but purportedly nurtured by liberal ideals, Israel has neve...
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Political Science
Out of Many, One Obama and the Third American Political Tradition
O'Brien Ruth
ISBN: PB: 9780226041629, ISBN: HB: 9780226041599, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm
Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In "Out of Many, One", Ruth O'Brien explains why. We are accustomed to seeing politicians supporting...
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Architecture
Chicago's Historic Hyde Park
O'Connor Davis Susan
ISBN: HB: 9780226138145, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
528 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 343 halftones, 11 line illus.
Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east from Washington Park to the lake's shore, the historic neighborhood of Hyde Park – Kenwood covers nearly two square miles of Chicago's south side. At one time a wealthy township outsi...
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Education
American Studies in Dialogue Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique
Oppermann Matthias
ISBN: PB: 9783593393179, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
300 pp., 21.3x14 cm
American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars – armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research – flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessar...
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Nature
Ecology
Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu Region, Southwestern Suriname
O'Shea Brian J., Alonso Leeanne E., Larsen Trond H.
ISBN: PB: 9781934151501, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, October 2012
156 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 3 maps, 44 colour illus.
This report contains the findings from a Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu region of southwestern Suriname. Focusing particularly on the plant and animal species important to the indigenous Trio people, this survey establishes baseline...
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America
General
Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
O'Malley Michael
ISBN: PB: 9780226629384, ISBN: HB: 9780226629377, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of G...
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Photography
Media Studies
Touching Photographs
Olin Margaret
ISBN: PB: 9780226626468, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
288 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 84 halftones, 37 colour illus.
Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography's ability to "touch" us t...
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