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Birds

Flight of the Golden Plover The Amazing Migration Between Hawaii and Alaska

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231511, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
32 pp., 20.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.

The remarkable story of the golden plover's annual migration, this beautifully illustrated nature title for young readers sees the small but mighty plover embark on a six-thousand-mile flight between the frozen Alaska tundra and gentle grassy slopes...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2010

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226363264, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For forty-nine years, the "Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions. The Review is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, one that strives to keep o...

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Architecture

Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis

Wolner Edward W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226905617, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 145 halftones

When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects – Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware o...

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Cartography

Public Health

Disease Maps Epidemics on the Ground

Koch Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226449357, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
344 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 2 tables, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea – that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the...

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Evolution

Evidence for Evolution

Rogers Alan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723822, ISBN: HB: 9780226723808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables, 27 line illus.

According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution – natural selection, genetic drift,...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Traina Cristina L. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...

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Education

Chicago Handbook for Teachers (Second Edition) A Practical Guide to the College Classroom

Brinkley Alan, El-Fakahany Esam, Dessants Betty, Flamm Michael, Forcey Charles B., Ouellett Mathew L., Rothschild Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226075280, ISBN: HB: 9780226075273, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm

Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself".The Chicago H...

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Literary Criticism

Art of the Novel Critical Prefaces

James Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226392059, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James's fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great...

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History

Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

Harrison Peter, Numbers Ronald L., Shank Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226317830, ISBN: HB: 9780226317816, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 4 halftones

When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early moder...

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History

Between Raphael and Galileo Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy

Marr Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226506289, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
384 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 25 halftones, 55 colour illus.

Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics. A prime example of the artisan-scholar so prevalent i...

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