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Jewish Studies

Looking for Strangers The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

Katz Dori

ISBN: HB: 9780226058627, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she migh...

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Asia

In Japan (1893-94)

Korensky Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024620732, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
250 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During his 1893 journey around the world, Czech traveler, pedagogue, and writer Josef Korensky spent only two months traveling in Japan, yet his power of observation yielded a travelogue t...

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Sea Life

Biology of Sharks and Rays

Klimley A. Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226442495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 57 colour plates, 87 halftones, 103 line drawings, 12 tables

"The Biology of Sharks and Rays" is a comprehensive resource on the biological and physiological characteristics of the cartilaginous fishes: sharks, rays, and chimaeras. In sixteen chapters, organized by theme, A. Peter Klimley covers a broad spectr...

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Design

Media Studies

Power to the People The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974

Kaplan Geoff

ISBN: HB: 9780226424354, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
264 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 700 colour illus.

Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

First Son The Biography of Richard M. Daley

Koeneman Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780226449470, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 24 halftones

"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time', he said" – New...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Dreaming in French The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226054872, ISBN: HB: 9780226424385, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

A year in Paris... since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision – and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light".Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives o...

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Anthropology

Treadwell Gold An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin

Kelly Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602231184, ISBN: HB: 9781602230750, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
271 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 80 halftones

A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and w...

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History

Osiris, Volume 27 Clio Meets Science: The Challenges of History

Kohler Robert E., Olesko Kathryn M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226450056, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science reveals how scholars in their everyday practice can work to maintain a sense of a larger purpose. The contri...

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Literary Criticism

City Beneath the Snow Stories

Kowalski Cole Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781602231559, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
230 pp., 23x15 cm

The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, "The City Beneath the Snow" is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans, their interactions, and their foibles. These stories reveal the moral decisions that lurk at unexpecte...

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