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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Dolphin Confidential Confessions of a Field Biologist

Bearzi Maddalena

ISBN: PB: 9780226418605, ISBN: HB: 9780226040158, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 71 line illus.

Who hasn't fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? We need not live this solely in our imaginations anymore. With "Dolphin Confidential" Maddalena Bearzi invites all of us shore-bound dreamers...

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Photography

Camera Does the Rest How Polaroid Changed Photography

Buse Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226176383, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 colour plates, 6 halftones

In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there's still something magical f...

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Education

What Every Science Student Should Know

Bauer Justin L., Jung Kim Yoo, Zureick Andrew H., Lee Daniel K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226198880, ISBN: HB: 9780226198743, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 6 tables

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students... We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future...

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Film Studies

America

Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226352206, ISBN: HB: 9780226352176, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the...

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Entomology

Infested How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Borel Brooke

ISBN: PB: 9780226361086, ISBN: HB: 9780226041933, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 6 line drawings

Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vu...

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Photography

To See Without Being Seen Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare

Braunert Svea, Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316413, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, April 2016
96 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 86 colour plates

We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behavior, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous visio...

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History

Scientific Peak How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science

Bassi Joseph P.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704850, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Scroll through a list of the latest incredible scientific discoveries and you might find an unexpected commonality – Boulder, Colorado. Once a Wild West city tucked where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, it is now home to some of the bigges...

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Political Science

Europe

Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day

Baumeister Martin, Sala Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...

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Poetry

Pitch of Poetry

Bernstein Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226332086, ISBN: HB: 9780226331928, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the "New York Times", Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory".Pitch of Poetry" is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary...

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Music

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

Bohlman Philip V., Plastino Goffredo

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226236032, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226158082, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 11 line drawings

Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jaz...

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