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History

About Method Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically

Schickore Jutta

ISBN: PB: 9780226759890, ISBN: HB: 9780226449982, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged...

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Middle East

Biography & Memoires

After the Nobel Prize 1989-1994 The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume IV

Mahfouz Naguib

ISBN: HB: 9781909942134, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, September 2020
700 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world's only Nobel literature laureate, is best known internationally for his short stories and novels, including The Cairo Trilogy. But in Egypt he was equally familiar to newspaper readers for the column he wrote for many y...

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Political Science

Azerbaijan's Geopolitical Landscape Contemporary Issues, 1991–2018

Shafiyev Farid

ISBN: PB: 9788024643915, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Being located between the Black and Caspian seas, Azerbaijan has always been the juncture of Eurasia – with a traditional reputation as a crossroads between the north-south and east-west t...

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America

After Redlining The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

Marchiel Rebecca K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226723648, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding an...

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Sport

Alaska Native Games and How to Play Them

Nuyaqik Brown Tricia, Kitmiiq Spiess Joni

ISBN: PB: 9781602234185, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

The athletes of the Alaska Native games aren't just returning to their roots. They've never left them. In this beautifully illustrated book, readers learn the history of twenty-five Native games that have been handed down through generations, how eac...

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Jewish Studies

American Jewish Thought Since 1934 Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief

Marmur Michael, Ellenson David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580149, ISBN: HB: 9781684580132, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? This anthology considers these questions and offers a look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and i...

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America

Angel in the Marketplace Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America

Wayland-Smith Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226486321, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

The popular image of a midcentury adwoman is of a feisty girl beating men at their own game, a female Horatio Alger protagonist battling her way through the sexist workplace. But before the fictional rise of Peggy Olson or the real-life stories of Pa...

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Philosophy

Action versus Contemplation Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters

Summit Jennifer, Vermeule Blakey

ISBN: PB: 9780226706634, ISBN: HB: 9780226032238, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 halftones

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone", Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dal...

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History

Aesthetic Science Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720

Wragge-Morley Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780226680866, ISBN: HB: 9780226680729, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it reall...

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Nature

Amber Waves The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop

Zabinski Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226553719, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
216 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 11 halftones

On our breakfast tables and in our bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. "Amber Waves" is a biography of a group of species that grew in sc...

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