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Anthropology

Sinister Yogis

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226895147, ISBN: HB: 9780226895130, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story o...

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Biography & Memoires

When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...

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Ecology

Constructed Climates A Primer on Urban Environments

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226901466, ISBN: HB: 9780226901459, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
288 pp., 20.3x15.5 cm, 56 tables, 31 halftones

As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces such as parks and gardens contribute, it's difficu...

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Europe

Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness

Wortman Richard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226907758, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal...

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Poetry

Tourist in Hell

Wilner Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226900322, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
96 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and pr...

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Computer Science & Internet

Philosophy

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Winsberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226902043, ISBN: HB: 9780226902029, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Computer simulation was first pioneered as a scientific tool in meteorology and nuclear physics in the period following World War II, but it has grown rapidly to become indispensible in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics...

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Anthropology

Heart for the Work Journeys through an African Medical School

Wendland Claire L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226893273, ISBN: HB: 9780226893259, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables, 1 halftone

Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as "A Heart for the Work" makes...

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Earth Sciences

On Sea Ice

Weeks Willy

ISBN: HB: 9781602230798, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
664 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 354 graphs and figures

Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere – and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With "On Sea Ice", geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a n...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Fireworks Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226893778, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 36 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics – in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs – have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon W...

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Ecology

Nature

Vanishing Present Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife

Waller Donald M., Rooney Thomas P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226871738, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
522 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest o...

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