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Backcasts A Global History of Fly Fishing and Conservation

Snyder Samuel, Borgelt Bryon, Tobey Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226366579, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones

"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect" – Norman Maclean Though Maclean writes of an age-old focus of all anglers – the day's catch – he may as well be spe...

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Philosophy

Heidegger's Confessions The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond

Coyne Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226419077, ISBN: HB: 9780226209302, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In "Heidegger's Confessions", Ryan Coyne isol...

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Business & Economics

Managing Performing Living Effective Management for a New World – Second Edition

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593502632, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates

In this completely revised and enlarged edition of his classic book, management expert Fredmund Malik offers managers sound professional advice for improving skills in organization, decision-making, supervising, budgeting, and numerous other manageme...

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Philosophy

Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

Peters John Durham

ISBN: PB: 9780226421353, ISBN: HB: 9780226253831, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Volume 30

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226395609, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2016
448 pp., 23x15 cm

This year, the NBER Macroeconomics Annual celebrates its thirtieth volume. The first two papers examine China's macroeconomic development".Trends and Cycles in China's Macroeconomy" by Chun Chang, Kaiji Chen, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha outlines...

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Europe

Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378

Royt Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024631325, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "The Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378", Czech professor of art history Jan Royt renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom during the High Gothic period, presenting the...

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History of Art

Live Form Women, Ceramics, and Community

Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780226303116, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 70 halftones

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those found in other creative mediums".Live Form" shines new light on the relation of ceram...

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Business & Economics

Hidden Wealth of Nations The Scourge of Tax Havens

Zucman Gabriel, Lavender Fagan Teresa

ISBN: PB: 9780226422640, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at wh...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence

Geetha V.

ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...

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Europe

Violent Sensations Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914

Spector Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226196787, ISBN: HB: 9780226196640, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and...

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