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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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Criminology

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Criminal Intimacy Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

Kunzel Regina

ISBN: PB: 9780226462271, ISBN: HB: 9780226462264, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line illus.

Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers – as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historica...

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Christianity

Islam

Critique of Christian Origins A Parallel English-Arabic Text

Abd al-Jabbar

ISBN: HB: 9780842527156, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, May 2010
249 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the "Critique of Christian Origins" Abd al-Jabbar – the leading Muslim intellectual of the late tenth century – develops what might be considered the first Islamic history of Christianity, analyzing the Bible, church rituals, and miracles. Unlike...

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Contemporary Art

Clement Greenberg Between the Lines Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg

Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226175164, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism – of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse – has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic o...

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Linguistics

Education

Craft of Scientific Communication

Harmon Joseph E., Gross Alan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316628, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 21 halftones, 12 line illus.

The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best t...

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Earth Sciences

Changing Arctic Landscape

Tape Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...

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Media Studies

Reference

Critical Terms for Media Studies

Mitchell W. J. T., Hansen Mark B. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532554, ISBN: HB: 9780226532547, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 6 line illus.

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive".Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and...

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Greek & Latin

Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

Danker Frederick William

ISBN: HB: 9780226136158, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing

Frederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of New Testament Greek, is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of Walter Bauer's "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature". With more than a quarter of a...

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Contemporary Art

Chance Aesthetics

Malone Meredith

ISBN: HB: 9780936316277, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, September 2009
160 pp., 22.6x16.5 cm, 60 colour plates

"Chance Aesthetics" embraces the role played by chance in modernist art from the beginning of the twentieth century through the early 1970s. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, this volume brings together...

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Literary Criticism

Children's Literature A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226473017, ISBN: HB: 9780226473000, University of Chicago Press, September 2009
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from "Aesop's fables to Mother Goose", from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "Peter Pan"...

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