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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Slonosky Victoria C.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones

Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...

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Ecology

Entangled People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay

Sigman Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9781602233485, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 4 halftones

Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth – from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon – in Alaska'...

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Law

Sit-Ins Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era

Schmidt Christopher W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226522449, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers...

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Literary Criticism

Danger of Romance Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions

Sullivan Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226540269, ISBN: HB: 9780226540122, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular roma...

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History

Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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Nature

Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms Revised and Updated Edition

Soltis Douglas, Soltis Pamela, Endress Peter, Chase Mark, Manchester Steven, Judd Walter, Majure Lucas, Mavrodiev Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780226383613, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 60 colour plates, 36 halftones, 129 line drawings, 18 tables

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135-170 million years ago, angiosperms – or flowering plants – are the most diverse and species-rich group of seed-producing land plants, comprising more than 13,000...

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Anthropology

Worldviews of the Greenlanders An Inuit Arctic Perspective

Sonne Birgitte

ISBN: HB: 9781602233386, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
1150 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map

Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Buddle Christopher M.,

ISBN: PB: 9780226332253, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels. No longer! In thi...

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Philosophy

What the Foucault?

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780996635547, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2018
94 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins' classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between. It's been twenty-five years since Sahlins first devised some after-dinner entert...

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Anthropology

On Kings

Sahlins Marshall, Graeber David

ISBN: PB: 9780986132506, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world's most distinguished anthropologist...

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