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Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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Getting Your Way Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226394770, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Getting other people to do what we want is a useful skill for anyone. Whether you're seeking a job, negotiating a deal, or angling for that big promotion, you're engaged in strategic thought and action. In such moments, you imagine what might be goin...

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Fiction

Geography of Water

Emerick Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781602232709, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pa...

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History

Great Paleolithic War How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past

Meltzer David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293226, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
680 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 18 halftones, 9 tables

Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geologica...

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Architecture

Georgii Krutikov The Flying City and Beyond

Khan-Magomedov S. O., Lodder Christina

ISBN: PB: 9788493923181, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, October 2015
160 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 90 line drawings

In 1927, while a student of architecture at the Moscow Vhutemas, Georgii Krutikov presented a vision for a flying city. More than just a flight of architectural fancy, Krutikov's flying city was a utopian dream, a plan to solve the seemingly intracta...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Ghost of Karl Marx

Mongin Jean Paul, Street Anna, Le Bras Yann, de Calan Ronan, Mary Donatien

ISBN: PB: 9783037345450, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2015
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Political Science

Going to War in Iraq When Citizens and the Press Matter

Feldman Stanley, Huddy Leonie, Marcus George E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226304236, ISBN: HB: 9780226304069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 figures, 12 tables

How was the Bush administration able to convince both Congress and the American public to support the plan to go to war against Iraq in spite of poorly supported claims about the danger Saddam Hussein posed? Conventional wisdom holds that, because ne...

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Fiction

Great Prince Died A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky

Wolfe Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226260648, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
416 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacan, Mexico. He died the next day. In "The Great Prince Died", Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized acco...

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Generations and Collective Memory

Corning Amy, Schuman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226282664, ISBN: HB: 9780226282527, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 34 line drawings, 15 tables

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuma...

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Evolution

Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution

Dial Kenneth P., Shubin Neil, Brainerd Elizabeth L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226268255, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
424 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 68 colour plates, 62 halftones, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And wi...

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