ledochowicz.com

Cultural Studies

Jewish Studies

Knish In Search of the Jewish Soul Food

Silver Laura

ISBN: HB: 9781611683127, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2014
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Laura Silver's favorite knish shop went out of business, the native New Yorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish. The iconic po...

HB:

£16,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Father Benito Vines The 19th-Century Life and Contributions of a Cuban Hurricane Observer and Scientist

Ramos Guadalupe Luis E.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704621, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, May 2014
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings, 5 maps

Before Doppler radar and broadcast weather reports, Spanish-born Benito Vines (1837-1893) spent decades observing the skies at Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba, routinely issuing weather reports and forecasts to local newspapers. And before storm t...

PB:

£15,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Trilobite Book A Visual Journey

Levi-Setti Riccardo

ISBN: HB: 9780226124414, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 235 colour plates

Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras – and they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have bee...

HB:

£34,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Ecology

Nature

Second Growth The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

Chazdon Robin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226118079, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With "Second Growth", Ro...

PB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

School for Cool The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity

Wilf Eitan Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226125190, ISBN: HB: 9780226125053, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die – so some fear – at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their care...

PB:

£26,00

QTY:

HB:

£73,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Literary Criticism

Cruelty and Laughter Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

Dickie Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780226142548, ISBN: HB: 9780226146188, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental – the product of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie contests these assumptions in "Cruelty and Laughter", a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic l...

PB:

£32,00

QTY:

HB:

£43,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Nature

Weeds of North America

Dickinson Richard, Royer France

ISBN: PB: 9780226076447, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1254 colour plates, 26 halftones, 125 line drawings

"What is a weed", opined Emerson, "but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?" While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root,...

PB:

£26,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Ecology

Large Carnivore Conservation Integrating Science and Policy in the North American West

Clark Susan G., Rutherford Murray B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226107400, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, "Large Carnivore Conservation" argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of peo...

HB:

£52,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Art & Energy How Culture Changes

Lord Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781933253916, ISBN: HB: 9781933253930, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, April 2014
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 75 colour plates

In "Art & Energy", Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable...

PB:

£24,50

QTY:

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Biography & Memoires

Philosophy

One Hour in Paris A True Story of Rape and Recovery

Freedman Karyn L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226073705, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape".One Hour in Paris" takes the reader on a harrowing yet inspi...

HB:

£15,00

QTY:

add books to the list