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Political Science

Political Economy of Pipelines A Century of Comparative Institutional Development

Makholm Jeff D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226502106, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 5 line illus.

With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies. Central to this supply ar...

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Nature

Peru: Yaguas-Cotuhe

Pitman Nigel, Vriesendorp Corine, Moskovits Debra K., May von Rudolf, Alvira Diana, Wachter Tatzyana, Stotz Douglas F., Campo del Alvaro

ISBN: PB: 9780982841914, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, April 2012
378 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour illus.

In October 2010, a team of experts from Peru, Colombia, and the United States conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and the lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern Peru. The social team assessed the strengths and...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Improvisation

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226662794, ISBN: HB: 9780226662787, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm

Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, "The Philosophy of Improvisation" ranges across the arts – from musi...

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Political Science

Perils of Global Legalism

Posner Eric A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226675756, ISBN: HB: 9780226675749, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 line illus.

The first months of the Obama administration have led to expectations, both in the United States and abroad, that in the coming years America will increasingly promote the international rule of law – a position that many believe is both ethically nec...

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Literary Criticism

Political Science

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Rose Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780226725789, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
256 pp., 22x14 cm, 4 halftones

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

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Contemporary Art

Precarious Worlds Contemporary Art from Germany

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316345, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2012
72 pp., 33x24 cm, 20 colour illus.

Taking as its impetus a group of important new acquisitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, "Precarious Worlds" explores thematic connections between some of the most influential artists working in Germany today. Works by Franz Ackermann, Cosi...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Pontecorvo Affair A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics

Turchetti Simone

ISBN: HB: 9780226816647, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an exper...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Poet's Freedom A Notebook on Making

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226773872, ISBN: HB: 9780226773865, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm

Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freed...

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Nature

America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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