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Literary Criticism

Daily Charles Dickens A Year of Quotes

Dickens Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226563749, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, "The Daily Charles Dickens" is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved n...

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History

Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences

Harman Oren, Dietrich Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569901, ISBN: HB: 9780226569871, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 line drawings

What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In "Dreamers, Visionaries, and Rev...

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Europe

Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank

Drapal Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024637303, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drapal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Her...

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General

Down, Out, and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

Stuart Forrest

ISBN: PB: 9780226566207, ISBN: HB: 9780226370811, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over...

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Europe

Political Science

Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880

Sawyer Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226544465, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democrati...

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Gardening

Discoveries in the Garden

Nardi James B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226531663, ISBN: HB: 9780226531526, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones, 30 line drawings, 3 tables

Every square inch of soil is rich with energy and life, and nowhere is this more evident than in the garden. At the tips of our trowels, a sun-driven world of microbes, insects, roots, and stems awaits – and it is a world no one knows better than Jam...

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Literary Criticism

Danger of Romance Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions

Sullivan Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226540269, ISBN: HB: 9780226540122, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular roma...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Buddle Christopher M.,

ISBN: PB: 9780226332253, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels. No longer! In thi...

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Evolution

Darwin's Evolving Identity Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation

Sponsel Alistair

ISBN: HB: 9780226523118, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 27 halftones

Why – against his mentor's exhortations to publish – did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In "Darwin's Evolving Identity", Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to a...

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Political Science

Law

Defence of Constitutionalism Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe

Priban Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024634234, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk's study "The Czech Question", Czech politics – instead of the nation's historical struggle for s...

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