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Literary Criticism

Forms of Attention Botticelli and Hamlet

Kermode Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780226431758, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
112 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic".Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the arti...

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Nature

Hybrid The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Kingsbury Noel

ISBN: PB: 9780226437132, ISBN: HB: 9780226437040, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
512 pp., 23x15 cm

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrot...

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Anthropology

Travel

Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans

Kari James

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...

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Surgery

Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Kellogg Katherine C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430034, ISBN: HB: 9780226430027, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
248 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 line illus.

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent obs...

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Europe

History

Martian Stranded on Earth Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science

Krementsov Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9780226454122, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones

Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the worke...

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Cartography

Public Health

Disease Maps Epidemics on the Ground

Koch Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226449357, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
344 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 2 tables, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea – that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the...

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Business & Economics

Shared Capitalism at Work Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-Based Stock Options

Kruse Douglas L., Freeman Richard B., Blasi Joseph R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226456676, ISBN: HB: 9780226056951, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 tables, 22 line illus.

The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effe...

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America

Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable American Reburials

Kammen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226423302, ISBN: HB: 9780226423296, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grav...

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Film Studies

When Movies Mattered Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Kehr Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226429410, ISBN: HB: 9780226429403, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the "New York Times", then you are already familiar with one of our nation's premier film critics. If you love mo...

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Law

Habeas for the Twenty-First Century Uses, Abuses, and the Future of the Great Writ

King Nancy J., Hoffmann Joseph L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226436975, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 2 tables, 8 line illus.

For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time – among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the d...

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