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Ecology

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program The First 20 Years

Turner D. D., Ellingson R. G.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970055, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2018
100 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 10 halftones, 5 maps

The U. S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was established in 1990 and is still going strong today. This monograph chronicles the history of the first 20 years of the ARM Program and provides descriptions of its...

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Literary Criticism

Country House Revisited Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

Topolovska Tereza

ISBN: PB: 9788024636726, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
178 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From "Howard's End" to "Brideshead Revisited", this book explores the leitmotif of the English country house in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, with a focus on the works of E....

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Contemporary Art

Art in Chicago A History from the Fire to Now

Taft Maggie, Cozzolino Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226168319, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
448 pp., 29.2x24.6 cm, 160 colour plates, 29 halftones

For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand... well, people here...

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Philosophy

Other

Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables

Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...

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Music

Singing in the Age of Anxiety Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars

Tunbridge Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780226563572, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder – German art songs – was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 47 A Review of Research

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226577043, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since 1979, the "Crime and Justice" series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series e...

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Anthropology

Palma Africana

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226516134, ISBN: HB: 9780226515946, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones

"It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream". So begins "Palma Africana", the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to w...

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Evolution

Culture and the Course of Human Evolution

Tomlinson Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226548524, ISBN: HB: 9780226548494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capac...

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Reference

Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Ninth Edition)

Turabian Kate L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430577, ISBN: HB: 9780226494425, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 22 line drawings, 12 tables

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamen...

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Political Science

Legacies of Losing in American Politics

Tulis Jeffrey K., Mellow Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9780226515328, ISBN: HB: 9780226515298, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also...

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