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Women Studies

Natalia Shelikhova Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce

Black Dawn Lea, Petrov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781602230736, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2010
250 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American...

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Evolution

Natural History of Time

Richet Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780226712888, ISBN: HB: 9780226712871, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
481 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 line drawings, 3 tables, 12 halftones

For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abounds with clues. In "A Natural History of Time", geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story...

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Business & Economics

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2008 Volume 5

Frankel Jeffrey A., Pissarides Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226107325, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2010
500 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 line illus.

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for thirty years. The papers in the 2007 volume discuss interest-setting and central bank transparency; expectations, monetary policy, and traded good prices; public...

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General

Neighborhood That Never Changes Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity

Brown-Saracino Japonica

ISBN: PB: 9780226076638, ISBN: HB: 9780226076621, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
352 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm, 3 maps, 10 tables, 22 halftones

Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as "A Neighborhood That Never Changes" demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local...

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Cartography

Natures of Maps Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World

Wood Denis, Fels John

ISBN: HB: 9780226906041, University of Chicago Press, January 2009
231 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 179 colour plates, 16 halftones

Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and...

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History of Art

New Key Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850126, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2007
233 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 53 colour plates, 81 halftones

The Simon Collection, housed in London and France, is the finest assemblage of modern Belgian art outside Belgium. Accompanying an exhibition held at Boston College's McMullen Museum, "A New Key" presents fifty-three works never before displayed in N...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Now Don't Try to Reason with Me Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065809, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
398 pp., 23x15 cm

In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason – a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. F...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Norman Rockwell The Underside of Innocence

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226314402, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
218 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 12 colour plates, 40 halftones

Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do...

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Mathematics

N-distances and Their Applications

Klebanov Lev B.

ISBN: PB: 9788024611525, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2006
96 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The book focuses on probability metrics suitable for the characterization of random variables in Hilbert or Banach space. It provides details of various stochastic processes, such as testi...

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Mammals

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals A Field Guide

Emmons Louise H., Feer François

ISBN: PB: 9780226207216, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 colour plates, 9 halftones, 195 maps, 14 line drawings

"Neotropical Rainforest Mammals", the first color-illustrated field guide to these marvelously diverse and elusive creatures, has enjoyed tremendous success since its initial publication in 1990. Ecotourists and field researchers alike have applauded...

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