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Ecology

Ecology of Place Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding

Billick Ian, Price Mary V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226050430, ISBN: HB: 9780226050423, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 8 tables, 42 halftones, 32 line illus.

Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change....

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Culture Studies

Troubling Vision Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

Fleetwood Nicole R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226253039, ISBN: HB: 9780226253022, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

"Troubling Vision" addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nico...

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Poetry

Poetics of Repetition in English and Chinese Lyric Poetry

Chu-chin Sun Cecile

ISBN: HB: 9780226780207, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones

For more than half a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but critics and scholars in the field have done little to develop a viable, common basis for comparison between these disparate...

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Business & Economics

Demography and the Economy

Shoven John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226754727, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
448 pp., 23.2x15.6 cm, 61 tables, 140 line illus.

Demographics is a vital field of study for understanding social and economic change and it has attracted attention in recent years as concerns have grown over the aging populations of developed nations. Demographic studies help make sense of key aspe...

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