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Epochs of Nature

Leclerc Georges-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226395432, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's "The Epochs of Nature", originally published as "Les Epoques de la Nature" in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of R...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Filled with the Spirit Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition

Lewin Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226537207, ISBN: HB: 9780226537177, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at it...

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Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Verner Suomi The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

Lewis John M.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970222, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 30 line drawings

As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educat...

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Gynecology

Tangled Diagnoses Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

Lowy Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9780226534091, ISBN: HB: 9780226534121, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus...

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Business & Economics

Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development

Lamoreaux Naomi R., Wallis John Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780226426365, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 26 line drawings, 21 tables

Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources. Yet in spite of the advantages of open access to civil organizations, it is estima...

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Africa

Political Science

Specter of Global China Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

Lee Ching Kwan

ISBN: PB: 9780226340838, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 tables

China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2017 Volume 18

Stern Scott, Lerner Josh

ISBN: HB: 9780226575872, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2018
160 pp., 23x15 cm

The eighteenth annual volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Innovation Policy and the Economy focuses on research that explores the interplay between new technologies and organizational structures, such as networks and corporations. In...

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Buddhism

Hyecho's Journey The World of Buddhism

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226517902, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 1 halftone

In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam,...

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Buddhism

Prisoners of Shangri-La Tibetan Buddhism and the West

Lopez Jr. Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226485485, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, "Prisoners of Shangri-La" pr...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

Stories of Capitalism Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

Leins Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226523422, ISBN: HB: 9780226523392, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 line drawings, 5 tables

The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to for...

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