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Linguistics

Grammars of Approach Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

Wall Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9780226467665, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 16 halftones, 7 line drawings, 2 tables

In "Grammars of Approach", Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "ap...

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Anthropology

Gyotaku Prints of Fish and Crustaceans of Southeast Alaska

Tinker Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781602233782, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
70 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 47 colour plates

Join Julia Tinker – avid explorer, angler, and artist – in her travels as she recounts her multi-year journey captaining her boat through the beautiful waters surrounding Ketchikan and Prince of Wales. Her mission is to delve into the diverse ecosyst...

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Education

Testing Charade Pretending to Make Schools Better

Koretz Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226644882, ISBN: HB: 9780226408712, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that scho...

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America

Business & Economics

Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change

La Croix Sumner

ISBN: HB: 9780226592091, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables

Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understa...

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Philosophy

Thinking in the Past Tense Eight Conversations

Bevilacqua Alexander, Clark Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780226601205, ISBN: HB: 9780226601175, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If the vibrancy on display in "Thinking in the Past Tense" is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims wit...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Les Amphibiens du Nord de Madagascar

Andreone Franco, Crottini Angelica, Rosa Goncalo M., Rakotoarison Andolalao, Scherz Mark D., Raselimanana Achille P.

ISBN: PB: 9782953892376, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, March 2019
355 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 327 colour plates

The island of Madagascar hosts a large number of frogs with at least 315 described species, and many others still to be named. Northern Madagascar is rich in species, due to the heterogeneity of landscapes, including a large number of habitat types a...

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History

Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...

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Philosophy

How Should We Live? A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality

Kekes John

ISBN: PB: 9780226639079, ISBN: HB: 9780226155654, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years...

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Philosophy

Human Predicaments And What to Do about Them

Kekes John

ISBN: PB: 9780226638911, ISBN: HB: 9780226359458, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new...

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Ecology

Middle East

Under Osman's Tree The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History

Mikhail Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226638881, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 tables

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the...

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