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Ancient World

Martial The World of the Epigram

Fitzgerald William

ISBN: PB: 9780226252551, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
268 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's cu...

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America

Go Play Outside! Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Trails

Fresco Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602234390, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Having children doesn't mean that you can't enjoy every season in the great outdoors – even if you happen to live in the middle of Alaska. Whether you're biking eighty miles into the heart of Denali National Park, cross-country skiing to a remote cab...

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America

Culture Studies

Cycling City Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s

Friss Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780226758800, ISBN: HB: 9780226210919, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles – where they belong, how they should be ridde...

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America

Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

Fabian Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226760575, ISBN: HB: 9780226233482, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...

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Europe

She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers

Franklin Mary, Burton Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures

On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...

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Africa

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

Falola Toyin, Chijioke Njoku Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9780300234831, Yale University Press, October 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tr...

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MI9 A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two

Fry Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300233209, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 map, 26 black&white illus.

When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way...

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Military

Walls Have Ears The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II

Fry Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300254853, ISBN: HB: 9780300238600, Yale University Press, September 2020
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.

At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private...

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Military

First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader

Fritz Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300251463, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 10 maps

After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed...

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America

Growing Up with the Country Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War

Field Kendra Taira

ISBN: PB: 9780300248395, ISBN: HB: 9780300180527, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 black&white illus.

Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyo...

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