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Children of the Land Adversity and Success in Rural America

Elder Glen H., Conger Rand D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212531, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
394 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 37 line drawings, 56 tables

A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age...

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History

Commercial Visions Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

Margocsy Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226117744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 39 halftones, 3 tables

Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In "Commercial Visions", Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded na...

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Evolution

History

Cultural History of Heredity

Muller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jorg

ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...

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America

City for Children Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

Gutman Marta

ISBN: HB: 9780226311289, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 120 halftones, 14 line drawings

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast c...

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History

Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Philosophy

Cur homo? A History of the Thesis of Man as a Replacement for Fallen Angels

Novotny Vojtech

ISBN: PB: 9788024625195, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Examining, outlining, elucidating, and supplementing the existing body of scholarship concerning the medieval theological supposition that man was created as a replacement for fallen angel...

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History of Art

Constructivism

Gan Aleksei

ISBN: PB: 9788493923129, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, August 2014
178 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 28 halftones

Published in 1922 in Russian, Aleksei Gan's Constructivism was the first theoretical treatise of postrevolutionary Russia's emergent Constructivist movement. Fired with revolutionary zeal, it was unquestionably a declaration of war on traditional bou...

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Ecology

Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation

Uekotter Frank

ISBN: PB: 9783593500287, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
272 pp., 22x14 cm

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. T...

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Fiction

Cold Spell

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232426, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With precise and evocative prose, "Cold Spell" tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both. From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she...

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Cartoon Art

Comics and Media A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry"

Chute Hillary L., Jagoda Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226208466, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 97 colour plates, 110 halftones

The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success".Comics and Media" reflects that, bringing together an amazing array of contributors, creators and critics alike, to discuss the stat...

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