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Business & Economics

Chicago Business and Industry From Fur Trade to E-Commerce

Reiff Janice L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226709369, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 24 halftones

From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. With its blue-collar work ethic and an economic history that extends into virtually every segment of American industry, it...

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Philosophy

Contesting Nietzsche

Acampora Christa Davis

ISBN: HB: 9780226923901, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, sh...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 41 Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226009674, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United St...

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Literary Criticism

City Beneath the Snow Stories

Kowalski Cole Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781602231559, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
230 pp., 23x15 cm

The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, "The City Beneath the Snow" is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans, their interactions, and their foibles. These stories reveal the moral decisions that lurk at unexpecte...

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Sea Life

Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska Second Edition

Garza Dolly

ISBN: PB: 9781566121682, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
61 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 44 halftones

Seaweed is fast becoming a new favorite snack, as eaters everywhere are realizing what Alaska Natives have known for millennia: seaweed can be a healthy and tasty treat. Found in abundance along Alaska's shores, it has been believed to do everything...

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Biography & Memoires

Canyons and Ice The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith

Johnson Kaylene

ISBN: PB: 9781467509343, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
280 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 110 colour illus.

Solo travel today is anything but solitary, with the familiar glow of technology and nearly sentient gear as common companions. But for decades one especially daring traveler has set off into the wilderness with little more than a sense of adventure....

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Anthropology

Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

Burch Ernest S. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231795, ISBN: HB: 9781602231788, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
216 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 20 maps

In his final, major publication Ernest S".Tiger" Burch Jr. reconstructs the distribution of caribou herds in northwest Alaska using data and information from research conducted over the past several decades as well as sources that predate western sci...

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Biography & Memoires

Childhood

Sarraute Nathalie

ISBN: PB: 9780226922317, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
264 pp., 20.3x13 cm

As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including "The Golden Fruits", which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir...

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Linguistics

Concreteness in Grammar

Dobrin Lise

ISBN: PB: 9781575866062, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Based on an exhaustive search of published sources and the author's firsthand fieldwork, "Concreteness in Grammar" explores the role of phonological form in the noun class systems of the Arapesh languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. Linguists have lo...

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Europe

Polonica

Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990

Grubbauer Monika, Kusiak Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9783593397788, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...

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