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Mary's Wild Winter Feast

Lindoff Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9781602232327, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
40 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

When winter rain washes away Mary's chances for a sledding day, she thinks there is no hope for excitement. But with a little imagination and a brimming pantry she soon finds herself caught up in a colorful journey. Together with her father she reliv...

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Philosophy

Natural Questions

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226748399, ISBN: HB: 9780226748382, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of n...

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Philosophy

On Benefits

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226212227, ISBN: HB: 9780226748405, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of n...

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Political Science

Criminology

Arresting Citizenship The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control

Lerman Amy E., Weaver Vesla M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137834, ISBN: HB: 9780226137667, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 figures, 5 tables

The numbers are staggering: One-third of America's adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before h...

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Evolution

Trilobite Book A Visual Journey

Levi-Setti Riccardo

ISBN: HB: 9780226124414, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 235 colour plates

Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras – and they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have bee...

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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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History

Victorian Scientific Naturalism Community, Identity, Continuity

Lightman Bernard, Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226109503, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 table

"Victorian Scientific Naturalism" examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of "The Origin of Species", wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professi...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Art & Energy How Culture Changes

Lord Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781933253916, ISBN: HB: 9781933253930, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, April 2014
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 75 colour plates

In "Art & Energy", Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable...

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Poetry

Particle and Wave

Landry Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226096193, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Are we alone? If so, "Particle and Wave" insists that we need not be lonely. Here the periodic table of elements – a system familiar to many of us from high school chemistry – unfolds in a series of unexpected meanings with connotations public, perso...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Prospero's Son Life, Books, Love, and Theater

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226142234, ISBN: HB: 9780226014418, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
168 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs". ‌ That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son...

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