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History

Making Jet Engines in World War II Britain, Germany, and the United States

Giffard Hermione

ISBN: HB: 9780226388595, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. With "Making Jet Engines in World War II", Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding techn...

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Nature

Microbes from Hell

Forterre Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780226265827, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists – prokaryotes versus eukaryotes – was upended by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms: archaea. Initially thought to be bacteria, these single...

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Biography & Memoires

Man Who Stole Himself The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

Palsson Gisli

ISBN: HB: 9780226313283, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 49 halftones

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things – majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood – but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family...

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Contemporary Art

Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago

Corbett John, Dempsey Jim, Moss Jessica, Born Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones

Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...

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Political Science

Moral Politics How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Third Edition)

Lakoff George

ISBN: PB: 9780226411293, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
512 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When "Moral Politics" was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals...

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General

Law

Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don't Sue

Engel David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226305042, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 figures, 1 table

Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don't! For every "Whiplash Charlie" who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald's customer to pursue a claim over a too-hot cup of...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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Business & Economics

Managing Performing Living Effective Management for a New World – Second Edition

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593502632, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates

In this completely revised and enlarged edition of his classic book, management expert Fredmund Malik offers managers sound professional advice for improving skills in organization, decision-making, supervising, budgeting, and numerous other manageme...

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Philosophy

Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

Peters John Durham

ISBN: PB: 9780226421353, ISBN: HB: 9780226253831, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are...

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Cartography

Medieval Islamic Maps An Exploration

Pinto Karen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226126968, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 162 colour plates

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies t...

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