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Ecology

Why Ecology Matters

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226318158, ISBN: HB: 9780226318011, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones, 12 line drawings, 3 tables

Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world's smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America – but why does it matter? Who cares? With this concise, accessible,...

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Fiction

Midway on Our Life's Journey

Jedlicka Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024631271, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
150 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, "Midway on Our Life's Journey" flew in the face of the reigning aesth...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History

History Within The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules

Sommer Marianne

ISBN: HB: 9780226347325, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 6 line drawings

Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry. com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may...

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Reference

But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"? Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A

ISBN: HB: 9780226370644, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
112 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Q. Is it "happy medium" or "happy median"? My author writes: "We would all be much better served as stewards of finite public funds if we could find that happy median where trust reigns supreme". Thanks! A. The idiom is "happy medium", but I like the...

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Architecture

Antoni Gaudi Ornament, Fire and Ashes

Lahuerta Juan Jose

ISBN: PB: 9788493923167, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, April 2016
236 pp., 20.9x15.8 cm, 95 colour plates, 113 halftones

Juan Jose Lahuerta's "Columns of Smoke" series offers bold new readings of modernity and its key figures while redefining the connections between architecture, ornamentation, and the portrayal of both in print media. The third volume focuses on the S...

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Biography & Memoires

Wealth Woman Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232778, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2016
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps

With the first headlines screaming "Gold! Gold! Gold!" in 1896, the Klondike Gold Rush was on – and it almost instantly became the stuff of legend. One of the key figures in the early discoveries that set off the gold rush was the Tagish wife of pros...

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Reference

Getting It Published A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (Third Edition)

Germano William

ISBN: HB: 9780226281377, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

For more than a decade, writers have turned to William Germano for his insider's take on navigating the world of scholarly publishing. A professor, author, and thirty-year veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers...

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Photography

Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015

Havel Jan, Lab Filip

ISBN: PB: 9788024630175, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
258 pp., 29.2x19 cm, 180 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Pavel Dias's work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was...

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Europe

Hitler's Geographies The Spatialities of the Third Reich

Giaccaria Paolo, Minca Claudio

ISBN: HB: 9780226274423, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"Lebensraum": the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. "Entfernung": the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Shilo Margalit

ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...

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