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Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories
ISBN: PB: 9780226122021, ISBN: HB: 9780226121994, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
212 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 108 line illus.
The natural world is filled with diverse – not to mention quirky and odd – animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the...
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Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226101309, ISBN: HB: 9780226101293, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones, 54 line drawings, 4 tables
"The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology" is an indispensable guide for graduate students and post-docs as they enter that domain red in tooth and claw: the job market. An academic career in the biological sciences typically demands...
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Impressionist Giverny A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915
ISBN: PB: 9780932171528, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2007
224 pp., 29.9x22.9 cm, 170 colour plates
Lured by the ineffable beauty represented in Claude Monet's artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transf...
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£37,00
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Lee Miller A Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226080673, University of Chicago Press, April 2007
446 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 82 halftones
Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a...
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£13,50
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Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid
ISBN: PB: 9780945323112, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2007
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 74 colour plates
"Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid" documents a multi-channel installation by contemporary video artist Edgar Arceneaux. Centered on video footage of popular comedian David Alan Grier, the artwork examines the nuances and structures of...
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£15,00
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Sociology in America A History
ISBN: PB: 9780226090955, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
880 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 9 maps, 6 tables
Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that s...
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Mathematical Models of Social Evolution A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: PB: 9780226558271, ISBN: HB: 9780226558264, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 55 line drawings, 99 tables, 41 boxes
Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavio...
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£63,00
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Deep The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
ISBN: HB: 9780226595665, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
256 pp., 30.7x26.1 cm, 220 colour illus.
On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters – the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 met...
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Abysmal A Critique of Cartographic Reason
ISBN: HB: 9780226629308, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
584 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 45 halftones, 2 maps, 24 figures
People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers i...
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£39,00
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Suddenly Jewish Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots
ISBN: PB: 9781584656203, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2007
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One woman learned on the eve of her Roman Catholic wedding. One man as he was studying for the priesthood. Madeleine Albright famously learned from the Washington Post when she was named Secretary of State. "What is it like to find out you are not wh...
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