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Ecology

Why Birds Matter Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services

Sekercioglu Cagan H., Wenny Daniel G., Whelan Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382630, ISBN: HB: 9780226382463, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 6 line drawings, 8 tables

For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds' beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide. But while...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Rhinoceros

Armengaud Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9783037345474, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, colour throughout illus.

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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General

When We Imagine Grace Black Men and Subject Making

Drake Simone C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226363974, ISBN: HB: 9780226363837, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she qui...

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America

Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England before the Civil War

Paretsky Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780226337746, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky's work has long been inflected with history – for her charac...

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Education

What Every Science Student Should Know

Bauer Justin L., Jung Kim Yoo, Zureick Andrew H., Lee Daniel K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226198880, ISBN: HB: 9780226198743, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 6 tables

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students... We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future...

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Ecology

Why Ecology Matters

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226318158, ISBN: HB: 9780226318011, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones, 12 line drawings, 3 tables

Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world's smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America – but why does it matter? Who cares? With this concise, accessible,...

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Biography & Memoires

Wealth Woman Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232778, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2016
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps

With the first headlines screaming "Gold! Gold! Gold!" in 1896, the Klondike Gold Rush was on – and it almost instantly became the stuff of legend. One of the key figures in the early discoveries that set off the gold rush was the Tagish wife of pros...

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Mammals

Wattana An Orangutan in Paris

Herzfeld Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226168593, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

She likes tea, sews, draws on papers and is a self-taught master of tying and untying knots. But she is not a crafty woman of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives in the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it is in Paris where Chris H...

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Reference

Writer's Diet A Guide to Fit Prose

Sword Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780226351988, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
88 pp., 19x13.9 cm

Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, "The Writer's Diet" is for you! It's a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with e...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Clottes Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226266633, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was...

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