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Nature

How the Earth Turned Green A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

Armstrong Joseph E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226069777, ISBN: HB: 9780226069630, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 121 halftones, 31 line drawings, 4 tables

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for...

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Education

Aspiring Adults Adrift Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

Arum Richard, Roksa Josipa

ISBN: PB: 9780226197289, ISBN: HB: 9780226191157, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables

Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses – and newspaper opinion pages – as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academical...

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Reference

Digital Paper A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials

Abbott Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226167787, ISBN: HB: 9780226167640, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 figures

Today's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical a...

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Other

Basic Czech I Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623344, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech. The first volume presents the basics of the Czech language by mean...

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Other

Basic Czech II Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024625140, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech".Basic Czech" II is structured similarly, but it moves students fro...

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Jewish Studies

Photography

Photographing the Jewish Nation Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions

Avrutin Eugene M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611686838, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From 1912 to 1914, S. An-sky and the photographer Solomon Iudovin gathered materials and took photographs of Jewish daily life in pre-Revolutionary Russia's Pale of Settlement. Photographing the Jewish Nation offers English-language readers their fir...

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Anthropology

Genealogical Science The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology

Abu El-Haj Nadia

ISBN: PB: 9780226154701, ISBN: HB: 9780226201405, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
328 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Genealogical Science" analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary population...

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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization The Evolution of an Urban Landscape

Algaze Guillermo

ISBN: PB: 9780226142371, ISBN: HB: 9780226013770, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 9 maps, 6 line drawings, 1 figure, 1 table

The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization", owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millen...

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Contemporary Art

Pictures of People Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery

Allara Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781611685138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2014
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this vibrant chronicle of the life and work of the prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel, whose career spanned the decades from the 1920s to the 1970s, Pamela Allara highlights portraits that constitute a virtual gallery of American c...

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Political Science

Timing and Turnout How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups

Anzia Sarah F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086811, ISBN: HB: 9780226086781, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings, 28 tables

Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elec...

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