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Earth Sciences

Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lackmann Gary

ISBN: HB: 9781878220103, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, January 2012
345 pp., 25.2x20 cm, colour illus.

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technology. However, the benefit of these advances can only be fully realized with the introduction of a systema...

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Nature

Photography

Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

Linder Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

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Culture Studies

Technology & Engineering

Autophobia Love and Hate in the Automotive Age

Ladd Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226467290, ISBN: HB: 9780226467412, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
236 pp., 23x15 cm

Cars are the scourge of civilization, responsible for everything from suburban sprawl and urban decay to environmental devastation and rampant climate change – not to mention our slavish dependence on foreign oil from dubious sources abroad. Add the...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Lovecraft Amy Lauren, Eicken Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...

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Political Science

Africa

I Say to You Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya

Lynch Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226498058, ISBN: HB: 9780226498041, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 14 tables

In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal pe...

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Military

Arc of War Origins, Escalation, and Transformation

Levy Jack S., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226476292, ISBN: HB: 9780226476285, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 tables, 11 line illus.

In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups,...

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America

Of War and Men World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families

LaRossa Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226467436, ISBN: HB: 9780226467429, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
328 pp., 25x15 cm

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real...

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History of Art

Pamphilj and the Arts Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome

Leone Stephanie C.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850171, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, July 2011
200 pp., 30.5x21.5 cm, 101 halftones, 15 colour illus.

In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the arts, which were harnessed as the visual expression of the family's new id...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Economics of Climate Change Adaptations Past and Present

Libecap Gary D., Steckel Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226479880, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 47 tables, 3 halftones, 86 line illus.

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which econo...

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History

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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