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Military

Welcome Home, Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946

Jobs Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593397450, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
276 pp., 21.5x14 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory – ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incis...

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Media Studies

What Is Happening to News The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism

Fuller Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226005027, ISBN: HB: 9780226268989, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked Web outlets like the "Huffington Post" thrive. Meanwhile, nightly news programs shock viewers with...

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Mammals

Wild Mammals in Captivity Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management, Second Edition

Kleiman Devra G., Thompson Katerina V., Kirk Baer Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780226440101, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
592 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 67 tables, 100 halftones, 39 line illus.

Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on "Wild Mammals in Captivity" as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a...

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History

Earth Sciences

Watching Vesuvius A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Cocco Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226923710, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco revea...

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Ecology

Evolution

Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

Brodie Jedediah F., Post Eric S., Doak Daniel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074634, ISBN: HB: 9780226074627, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 35 halftones, 37 line illus.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife p...

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Reference

What Editors Want An Author's Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing

Benson Philippa J., Silver Susan C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226043142, ISBN: HB: 9780226043135, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 musical examples, 4 tables, 14 halftones, 3 line illus.

Research publications have always been key to building a successful career in science, yet little if any formal guidance is offered to young scientists on how to get research papers peer reviewed, accepted, and published by leading scientific journal...

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Law

Why the Law Is So Perverse

Katz Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226005812, ISBN: HB: 9780226426037, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Conundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are Leo Katz's stock-in-trade, and in "Why the Law Is So Perverse", he focuses on four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation....

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Nature

Ecology

World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity

Liittschwager David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.

Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...

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Ecology

World of Rivers Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

Wohl Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226007601, ISBN: HB: 9780226904788, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 64 halftones, 1 line illus.

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage say...

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America

Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins John Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226004525, ISBN: HB: 9780226148830, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
152 pp., 22x14 cm

Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers". John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war". Andrew Sullivan has said, "We need Niebuhr now more than ever". For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinh...

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