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Technology & Engineering

Moralizing Technology Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things

Verbeek Peter-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226852935, ISBN: HB: 9780226852911, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply n...

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Asia

Libertine's Friend Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China

Vitiello Giovanni

ISBN: HB: 9780226857923, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
312 pp., 23x16 cm, 18 halftones

Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, "The Libertine's Friend" uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era....

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Political Science

Intervention as Indirect Rule Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Veit Alex

ISBN: PB: 9783593393117, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
300 pp., 21.4x14 cm

One of the largest peace-keeping missions currently being undertaken by the United Nations is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN is attempting to deal with the civil wars and other conflicts that have plagued the country since 1996. In...

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Poetry

In Spite of the Dark Silence

Volpi Jorge

ISBN: HB: 9780974888187, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice". So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders...

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Business & Economics

Mathematics

Mathematics for Economists Made Simple

Vinogradov Viatcheslav V.

ISBN: PB: 9788024616575, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
364 pp., 23x15 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! As the field of economics becomes ever more specialized and complicated, so does the mathematics required of economists. With "Mathematics for Economists", expert mathematician Viatcheslav...

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Europe

New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain

Vilches Elvira

ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...

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Current Affairs

Architecture

Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America

Vanderbilt Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones

On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...

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Nature

Ecuador Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual

Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., del Campo Alvaro, Stotz Douglas F., Moskovits Debra K., Caceres Segundo Fuentes, Tapia Byron Coronel, Anderson Elizabeth P.

ISBN: PB: 9780914868736, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2010
318 pp., 27.3x20.7 cm, 4 maps, 8 graphs, 12 tables, 20 colour illus.

The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, range-restricted flora and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In October 2008 scienti...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story

Vittorio Segre Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...

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