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America

Mapping the Nation History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

Schulten Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226103969, ISBN: HB: 9780226740683, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 47 halftones

In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators m...

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America

Protocols of Liberty Communication Innovation and the American Revolution

Warner William B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226061375, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 14 line drawings

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred "in the minds and hearts of the people" before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication a...

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Philosophy

Coming to Mind The Soul and Its Body

Goodman Lenn E., Caramenico D. Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9780226061061, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

How should we speak of bodies and souls? In "Coming to Mind", Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain's rival but as its partner. What acts, they...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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Ancient World

Other

Women and Weasels Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome

Bettini Maurizio

ISBN: HB: 9780226044743, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a...

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Political Science

Media Studies

How Partisan Media Polarize America

Levendusky Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226069012, ISBN: HB: 9780226068961, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 18 tables

Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable...

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Political Science

Transition Scenarios China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century

Rapkin David P., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040479, ISBN: HB: 9780226040332, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 21 tables

China's rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat...

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Education

Individual Differences

Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575866246, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1894 John Dewey established his experimental laboratory school at the University of Chicago, with a focus on teaching each student according to their individual differences. This concept indicated a shift away from the emphasis on communal, classr...

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Contemporary Art

Museums in a Global Context National Identity, International Understanding

Dickey Jennifer, Azhar Samir El, Lewis Catherine M.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253855, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, September 2013
200 pp., 22.6x16.5 cm, 15 colour plates, 10 halftones

Most museum visitors can see how national character is reflected in the museum's layout and collection. But museums do more than provide a mirror for national identity; they shape it".Museums in a Global Context" looks at the way globalization has sh...

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Ecology

Nature

Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics

Fleming Theodore H., Kress W. John

ISBN: PB: 9780226253411, ISBN: HB: 9780226253404, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 98 colour plates, 2 halftones, 15 line drawings, 53 tables

The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As "The Ornaments of Life" reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants – toucans, monkeys, leaf-...

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