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America

Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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Nature

Weeds of North America

Dickinson Richard, Royer France

ISBN: PB: 9780226076447, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1254 colour plates, 26 halftones, 125 line drawings

"What is a weed", opined Emerson, "but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?" While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root,...

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Ancient World

What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

Lehoux Daryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226143217, ISBN: HB: 9780226471143, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about t...

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Education

General

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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Fiction

What's Become of Waring A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137186, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Nature

Wildflowers of Unalaska Island A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian Island (Second Edition)

Golodoff Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781602232204, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
218 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 215 colour plates, 167 halftones, 1 map

In the Aleutian Islands, wildflowers are king. Persistent low temperatures mean trees are unable to thrive, and so swaths of open tundra serve as the dramatic stage for a stunning variety of flowers".Wildflowers of Unalaska Island" is the only guide...

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Sport

Wrigley Field The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines

Shea Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226134277, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
448 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 30 halftones, 1 map

In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago's and organized baseball's hierarchies, the new Weeghman Park (named after its builder, fast-food magnate Charley Weeghman) was home...

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America

War's Waste Rehabilitation in World War I America

Linker Beth

ISBN: PB: 9780226143354, ISBN: HB: 9780226482538, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
304 pp., 23.4x16 cm, 20 halftones

With U. S. soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper so...

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Photography

We Shall Photographs by Paul D'Amato

D'Amato Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780978907471, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, January 2014
102 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 47 colour plates

In "Barrio", photographer Paul D'Amato turned his lens to the largely Mexican-American Chicago neighborhoods of Pilsen and the Little Village, capturing their residents' homes and lives in multifaceted, dynamic images of weddings and graffiti artists...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Contemporary Art

Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art

Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9780226094120, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
328 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 40 halftones

Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualist...

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