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Adaptive Governance and Climate Change
ISBN: PB: 9781878220974, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2010
404 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones
While recent years have seen undeniable progress in international acknowledgement both of the dangers of climate change and the importance of working to mitigate it, little has actually been done. Emissions continue to rise, and even the ambitious ta...
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£26,50
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Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America
ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones
On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...
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£13,00
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Before the Storm A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942
ISBN: PB: 9781602230767, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
385 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones
From June of 1941 through the following summer, Fredericka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and "Before the Storm...
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£30,00
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Debate of the "Romance of the Rose"
ISBN: PB: 9780226670133, ISBN: HB: 9780226670126, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm
In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read "Romance of the Rose" for its blatant and unwarran...
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£34,50
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£88,50
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Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages
ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm
"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...
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£28,00
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£60,00
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Law and Happiness
ISBN: PB: 9780226676012, ISBN: HB: 9780226676005, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm
Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness – or "hedonics" – has developed into a formal field of inquiry,...
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£27,00
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£70,50
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Agglomeration Economics
ISBN: HB: 9780226297897, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 87 tables, 61 line illus.
When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as t...
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£85,50
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Modal Logic for Open Minds
ISBN: PB: 9781575865980, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Modal Logic for Open Minds", Johan van Benthem provides an up-to-date introduction to the field of modal logic, outlining its major ideas and exploring the numerous ways in which various academic fields have adopted it. Van Benthem begins with th...
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£22,50
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Social Security A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives
ISBN: HB: 9780226300337, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
374 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 tables, 34 line illus.
Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using long outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh Gokhale here argues that the program faces insolvency far...
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£52,00
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Vanishing Present Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife
ISBN: PB: 9780226871738, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
522 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 halftones, 16 colour illus.
Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest o...
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£28,00
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