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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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Criminology

Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Preib Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226679822, ISBN: HB: 9780226679808, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
176 pp., 21.3x14 cm

Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department – a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the Ci...

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Poetry

Figures in a Landscape

Mazur Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226514413, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
96 pp., 21.1x13.7 cm

A new inclusiveness, a heady freedom, grounded in the facts of mortality, inform Gail Mazur's recent poems, as if making them has served as both a bunker and a promontory, a way to survive, and to be exposed to, the profound underlying subject of thi...

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Mathematics

Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions

Farb Benson, Fisher David

ISBN: HB: 9780226237886, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
600 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line illus.

The study of group actions is more than a hundred years old but remains to this day a vibrant and widely studied topic in a variety of mathematic fields. A central development in the last fifty years is the phenomenon of rigidity, whereby one can cla...

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Ecology

Knowing Nature Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies

Goldman Mara J., Nadasdy Paul, Turner Matthew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226301419, ISBN: HB: 9780226301402, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 tables, 22 halftones, 8 line illus.

Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives – one focusing on the politics of resource access and the o...

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Poetry

Attack of the Difficult Poems Essays and Inventions

Bernstein Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226044774, ISBN: HB: 9780226044767, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing th...

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Ancient World

Shock of the Ancient Literature and History in Early Modern France

Norman Larry F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591483, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

he cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most ofte...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Fermilab Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience

Hoddeson Lillian, Kolb Adrienne W., Westfall Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780226346243, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 12 line illus.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years".Fermilab" is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point...

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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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Judaism

Untold Tales of the Hasidim Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism

Assaf David

ISBN: PB: 9781611681949, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This fascinating volume reveals some of the dark, dramatic episodes concealed in the folds of the hasidic cloak – shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a varie...

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