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Life Atomic A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
ISBN: PB: 9780226323961, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, October 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 21 line drawings
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxi...
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£22,50
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Simone A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226207483, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone
Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, "Simone" – which w...
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£13,00
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Ethical Condition Essays on Action, Person, and Value
ISBN: PB: 9780226292243, ISBN: HB: 9780226292106, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditi...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Side Effects and Complications The Economic Consequences of Health-Care Reform
ISBN: HB: 9780226285603, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 colour plates, 4 halftones, 47 tables
The Affordable Care Act will have a dangerous effect on the American economy. That may sound like a political stance, but it's a conclusion directly borne out by economic forecasts. In "Side Effects and Complications", preeminent labor economist Case...
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£22,00
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Masters of Uncertainty Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth
ISBN: PB: 9780226298689, ISBN: HB: 9780226298542, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently do a better job calibrating their performance than stockbrokers, physicians, or other decision-making ex...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Back to the Breast Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226288031, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the...
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£28,00
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – January
ISBN: HB: 9780842528641, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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£40,00
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O, How the Wheel Becomes It! A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226132792, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The first novel Anthony Powell published following the completion of his epic "A Dance to the Music of Time", "O, How the Wheel Becomes It!" fulfills perhaps every author's fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who a...
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£11,50
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Second Birth On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence
ISBN: HB: 9780226038056, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births. Drawing on mythical, philosophical, religious, and political thought from around...
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£44,00
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Venusberg A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226314129, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange dri...
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