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Outside in the Interior An Adventure Guide for Central Alaska, Second Edition

Joly Kyle

ISBN: PB: 9781602232808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2016
328 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 100 colour plates, 70 maps

With its breathtaking vistas and countless acres of unmarked wilderness, Alaska has long attracted those who are looking for a bit of adventure in their vacations – from visitors who want to climb rugged peaks to those content to push a stroller down...

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World

Juvenescence A Cultural History of Our Age

Pogue Harrison Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226381961, ISBN: HB: 9780226171999, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst o...

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Law

Invitation to Law and Society An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (Second Edition)

Calavita Kitty

ISBN: PB: 9780226296586, ISBN: HB: 9780226296449, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutio...

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Music

Anthropology

Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

Glasser Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226327235, ISBN: HB: 9780226327068, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoir...

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Europe

England's Great Transformation Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

Steinberg Marc W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226329956, ISBN: HB: 9780226329819, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

With "England's Great Transformation", Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi's landmark "The Great Transformation". The conventional wisdom...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Show Me the Bone Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226332734, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones

Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty – "Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!" Paleontologists such as Ge...

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Architecture

World

Practicing Utopia An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

Wakeman Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780226346038, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones

The typical town springs up around a natural resource – a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor – or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns", which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are of...

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Poetry

Forbidden City

Mazur Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226349565, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

from "Mount Fuji" A draughtsman's draughtsman, Hokusai at 70 thought he'd begun to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way plants grow, hoped that by 90 he'd have "penetrated to their essential nature". And more, by 100...

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Poetry

Selected Poems of Luis de Gongora A Bilingual Edition

de Gongora Luis

ISBN: PB: 9780226378879, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Making Luis de Gongora's work available to contemporary English-language readers without denying his historical context, "Selected Poems of Luis de Gongora" presents him as not only one of the greatest and most complex poets of his time, but also the...

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Literary Criticism

Rootedness The Ramifications of a Metaphor

Wampole Christy

ISBN: HB: 9780226317656, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth – and nations – from which they came. In "Rootedness", Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of...

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