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Elephants and Kings An Environmental History
ISBN: PB: 9780226264363, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table
Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacul...
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£24,00
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Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
ISBN: PB: 9780226273617, ISBN: HB: 9780226924977, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...
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£13,50
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£28,00
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Pox of Liberty How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
ISBN: HB: 9780226922171, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 7 tables
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth – behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others....
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£32,00
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Picture Man The Legacy of Southeast Alaska Photographer Shoki Kayamori
ISBN: PB: 9781602232457, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2015
180 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 70 halftones, 2 maps
In 1912, Shoki Kayamori and his box camera arrived in a small Tlingit village in southeast Alaska. At a time when Asian immigrants were forbidden to own property and faced intense racial pressure, the Japanese-born Kayamori put down roots and became...
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£20,50
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Plash and Levitation
ISBN: PB: 9781602232617, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Plash & Levitation" delves into the chaotic sublime of fatherhood, the candid revelations of youth, and the lingering consequences of history. Adam Tavel's revealing and imaginative poems are joined by fictional monologues from historical figures an...
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£15,00
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I Speak of the City Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226273587, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 halftones
In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, "I Speak of the City" c...
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£20,50
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Hidden Game of Baseball A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics
ISBN: PB: 9780226242484, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, "The Hidden Game...
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£17,00
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Siena City of Secrets
ISBN: HB: 9780226207827, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 colour plates, 3 halftones, 3 maps
Jane Tylus's "Siena" is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through...
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£19,50
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Crime and Justice, Volume 43 Why Crime Rates Fall, and Why They Don't
ISBN: PB: 9780226208770, ISBN: HB: 9780226208633, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Violent and property crime rates in all Western countries have been falling since the early and mid-1990s, after rising in the 1970s and 1980s. Few people have noticed the common patterns and fewer have attempted to understand or explain them. Yet th...
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£28,00
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£67,50
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Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
ISBN: PB: 9780226192307, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings
Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness – of decision-making, data, and organizational structure – is seen as the cu...
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£19,00
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