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Wealth and Poverty of Regions Why Cities Matter

Polese Mario

ISBN: PB: 9780226673165, ISBN: HB: 9780226673158, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 halftones, 23 line illus.

As the world becomes more interconnected through travel and electronic communication, many believe that physical places will become less important. But as Mario Polese argues in "The Wealth and Poverty of Regions", geography will matter more than eve...

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General

Social Knowledge in the Making

Camic Charles, Gross Neil, Lamont Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226092096, ISBN: HB: 9780226092089, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 4 line illus.

Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to "Social Knowledge in the...

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Nature

America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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Anthropology

Peoples on Parade Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Qureshi Sadiah

ISBN: HB: 9780226700960, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 117 halftones, 18 colour illus.

In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner", an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londone...

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Anthropology

Accompaniment Assembling the Contemporary

Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226701707, ISBN: HB: 9780226701691, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
248 pp., 22x14 cm

In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an ext...

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Music

Europe

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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Astronomy

Earth Sciences

How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

Hockey Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226345772, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 66 halftones

Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars – if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than d...

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Reference

Developmental Editing A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers

Norton Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226595153, ISBN: HB: 9780226595146, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
252 pp., 23x15 cm

Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That's the job of the developmental editor,...

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Political Science

Lesson of Carl Schmitt Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226518862, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Heinrich Meier's work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt", Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as...

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Poetry

Ancient World

Iliad of Homer

Homer

ISBN: PB: 9780226470498, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
608 pp., 22x14 cm, 2 line illus.

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation". For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation – the gold standard for generations of students and general re...

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