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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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America

Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco

Oda Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780226592749, ISBN: HB: 9780226592602, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific", using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newf...

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Ecology

Greening the Alliance The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives

Turchetti Simone

ISBN: PB: 9780226595795, ISBN: HB: 9780226595658, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War. As NATO marks sixty years since the establishment of...

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Military

Guerrilla Marketing Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia

Fattal Alexander L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226590646, ISBN: HB: 9780226590509, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

Brand warfare is real".Guerrilla Marketing" details the Colombian government's efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on whi...

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Genetics

Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics

Rheinberger Hans-Jorg, Muller-Wille Staffan

ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Europe

Germany's Ancient Pasts Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700

Maner Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226593074, ISBN: HB: 9780226592916, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic p...

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Music

Good Music What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Sheinbaum John J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226593388, ISBN: HB: 9780226593241, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 25 line drawings, 8 tables

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music – highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original – and, at the same time, has marginalized musi...

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Europe

Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France

Schechter Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780226499574, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as "terroristic". But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In "A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France", Ronald Schechter tells the sto...

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Ecology

Ground Truth A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home

Hineline Mark L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348131, ISBN: HB: 9780226347943, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Before you read this book, you have homework to do. Grab a notebook, go outside, and find a nearby patch of nature. What do you see, hear, feel, and smell? Are there bugs, birds, squirrels, deer, lizards, frogs, or fish, and what are they doing? What...

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