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Earth Sciences

Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...

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Photography

Photography, Trace, and Trauma

Iversen Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones

Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...

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Photography

Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

Mitman Gregg, Wilder Kelley

ISBN: HB: 9780226129112, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 40 halftones

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would b...

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Nutrition

Nutrition for a Better Life A Journey from the Origins of Industrial Food Production to Nutrigenomics

Brabeck-Letmathe Peter

ISBN: HB: 9783593505978, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm, 6 line drawings

Immense advances in the life sciences have deepened our understanding of the connection between nutrition and health, revealing that we can effectively improve our health and quality of life by redesigning our diet on a scientific basis. In "Nutritio...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 51, 2016

Baetjer Katharine, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226438047, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the museum's collection. Highlights of Volume 51 include a reassessment of a Degas pastel, an examination of painted Maya vessels from the third to tenth...

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Photography

Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316420, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2017
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour plates

In 2015, the "U. S. News & World Report" raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum "houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country".Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum" commemorates the museum's...

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History of Art

Visualizing Portuguese Power The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)

Krass Urte

ISBN: HB: 9783037347423, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates, 120 halftones

Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effecti...

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America

Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Brisman Shira

ISBN: HB: 9780226354750, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 colour plates, 86 halftones

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Durer, Shira B...

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Mathematics

Inferences with Ignorance Logics of Questions

Pelis Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024631813, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
100 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Inferences with Ignorance" focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as...

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Political Science

Secessionist Rule Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority

Smolnik Franziska

ISBN: PB: 9783593506296, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
425 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 3 maps, 7 tables

In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only parti...

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