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Henry Maudslay Dam Buster

Owen Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780992620707, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, April 2014
400 pp., 27.3x21 cm, black&white illus.

The Dam Buster raid, Operation Chastise, has gone down in history as one of the greatest feats of arms executed by the Royal Air Force. Extraordinary demands were placed upon the airmen who took part in the raid, one of whom was the particularly acco...

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America

Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Bacon Hales Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226313153, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
496 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 halftones

Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through "Outside the Gates of Eden", Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic ag...

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America

City Water, City Life Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

Smith Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226151595, ISBN: HB: 9780226022512, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the peopl...

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Other

Asia

Religion in China and Its Modern Fate

Katz Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611685435, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites t...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat

Johnson Albin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...

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Political Science

America

How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000

Springer Melanie Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226114217, ISBN: HB: 9780226114187, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 20 tables

The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that...

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Africa

Having People, Having Heart Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

Scherz China

ISBN: PB: 9780226119670, ISBN: HB: 9780226119533, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But i...

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Ancient World

What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

Lehoux Daryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226143217, ISBN: HB: 9780226471143, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about t...

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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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America

Puerto Rican Citizen History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City

Thomas Lorrin

ISBN: PB: 9780226151762, ISBN: HB: 9780226796086, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's m...

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