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FALL BOOKS Chicago Chicago CHICAGO • FALL 2013 FALL BOOKS 2013 University Press of Chicago 1427 East 60th Street 60637 IL Chicago, Recently Published Fall 2013 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 43 Paperbacks 99 The Book of Barely First Son The Biography of Richard M. Daley Distributed Books 136 Imagined Beings A 21st Century Bestiary Keith Koeneman Caspar Henderson ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44947-0 Cloth $30.00/£21.00 Author Index 324 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04470-5 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44949-4 Cloth $29.00/£20.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04484-2 Title Index 326 USA Subject Index 328 Ordering Inside Information back cover Golf Science How Animals Grieve Optimum Performance from Barbara J. King Tee to Green ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43694-4 Edited by Mark F. Smith Cloth $25.00/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04372-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00113-5 Cloth $30.00/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00127-2 CUSA A Manual for Writers of Payback Research Papers, Theses, The Case for Revenge and Dissertations Thane Rosenbaum Chicago Style for Students and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72661-8 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 Researchers, Eighth Edition E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04369-2 Kate L. Turabian ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81638-8 Cover design by Mary Shanahan Paper $18.00/£12.50 Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81639-5 CHRISTOPHER A. LUBIENSKI and SARAH THEULE LUBIENSKI The Public School Advantage Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools early the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? NAnd for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. Policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively NOVEMBER 288 p., 4 line drawings, 28 tables 6 x 9 driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08888-4 Cloth $50.00x/£35.00 Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08891-4 Paper $18.00/£12.50 to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08907-2 private ones. EDUCATION Decades of research have shown that students at private schools score, on average, at higher levels than students do at public schools. Drawing on two large-scale, nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show, however, that this difference is more than explained by demographics—private school students largely come from more privileged backgrounds, offering greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the authors go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones, and the very mechanism that mar- ket-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certifica- tion and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Offering facts, not ideologies, The Public School Advantage reveals that education is better off when provided for the public by the public. Christopher A. Lubienski is professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign. He is coeditor of The Charter School Experiment and School Choice Policies and Outcomes. Sarah Theule Lubienski is professor and associate dean of the Graduate College in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. general interest 1 GEOFF HODGE Practical Botany for Gardeners Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored ardening can be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy. Fickle plants make seemingly spontaneous decisions to bloom or G bust, seeds sprout magically in the blink of an eye, and deep- rooted mysteries unfold underground and out of sight. Understanding SEPTEMBER 224 p., 200 color plates basic botany is like unlocking a horticultural code—but, fortunately, 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09393-2 learning a little science can reveal the secrets of the botanical universe Cloth $25.00 and shed some light on what’s really going on in your garden. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09409-0 GARDENING Practical Botany for Gardeners provides an elegant and accessible NAM introduction to the world of botany. It presents the essentials that every gardener needs to know, connecting explanations of scientific facts with useful gardening tips. Flip to the roots section and you’ll not only learn how different types of roots support a plant but also find that Also available adding fungi to soil aids growth. The pruning section both defines “lateral buds” and explains how far back on a shoot to cut in order to propagate them. The book breaks down key areas and terminology with easy-to- navigate chapters arranged by theme, such as plant types, plant parts, inner workings, and external factors. “Great Botanists” and “Botany in Action” boxes delve deeper into the fascinating byways of plant science. This multifaceted book also includes two hundred botanical illustra- tions and basic diagrams that hearken to the classic roots of botany. Latin for Gardeners Over 3,000 Plant Names Part handbook, part reference, Practical Botany for Gardeners is a Explained and Explored beautifully captivating read. It’s a must for garden lovers and backyard Lorraine Harrison botanists who want to grow and nurture their own plant knowledge. “Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated.”—Martha Stewart Living Geoff Hodge is a gardening and horticultural writer and the former gardening editor for Gardening News. His most recent books include The RHS Allotment AVAILABLE 224 p., 200 color plates 7 x 9 Handbook, RHS Propagation Techniques, and RHS Pruning and Training. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00919-3 Cloth $25.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09393-2 GARDENING NSA 2 general interest BEN-ERIK VAN WYK Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World or centuries herbs and spices have been an integral part of many of the world’s great cuisines. But spices have a history of Fdoing much more than adding life to bland foods. They have been the inspiration for, among other things, trade, exploration, and poetry. Priests employed them in worship, incantations, and rituals, and shamans used them as charms to ward off evil spirits. Nations fought over access to and monopoly of certain spices, like cinnamon OCTOBER 320 p., 600 color plates 61/2 x 91/2 and nutmeg, when they were rare commodities. Not only were many ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09166-2 Cloth $45.00 men’s fortunes made in the pursuit of spices, spices at many periods E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09183-9 throughout history literally served as currency. SCIENCE COOKING NSA In Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World, Ben-Erik van Wyk offers Copublished with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Briza Publication the first fully illustrated, scientific guide to nearly all commercial herbs and spices in existence. Van Wyk covers more than 150 species—from black pepper and blackcurrant to white mustard and white ginger—de- tailing the propagation, cultivation, and culinary uses of each. Intro- ductory chapters capture the essence of culinary traditions, traditional herb and spice mixtures, preservation, presentation, and the chemistry of flavors, and individual entries include the chemical compounds and structures responsible for each spice or herb’s characteristic flavor. Many of the herbs and spices Van Wyk covers are familiar fixtures in our own spice racks, but a few—especially those from Africa and China —will be introduced for the first time to American audiences. Van Wyk also offers a global view of the most famous use or signature dish for each herb or spice, satisfying the gourmand’s curiosity for more infor- mation about new dishes from little-known culinary traditions. People all over the world are becoming more sophisticated and de- manding about what they eat and how it is prepared. Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World will appeal to those inquisitive foodies in addition to gardeners and botanists. Ben-Erik van Wyk is professor of botany at the University of Johannesburg and the author of several best-selling books on plants and plant use. general interest 3 JAMES W. P. CAMPBELL The Library A World History With Photographs by Will Pryce library is not just a collection of books, but also the building that houses them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they A hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to NOVEMBER 320 p., 275 color plates, 17 halftones 91/2 x 12 the ancient ruins of the library of Pergamum in modern Turkey, the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09281-2 Cloth $75.00 architecture of a library is a symbol of its time as well as of its builders’ PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY wealth, culture, and learning. CUSA Copublished with Thames and Hudson Architectural historian James W. P. Campbell and photographer Will Pryce traveled the globe together, visiting and documenting over eighty libraries that exemplify the many different approaches to think- ing about and designing spaces for books.
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