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Chemistry

Image and Reality Kekule, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination

Rocke Alan J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226723327, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2010
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line drawings, 44 halftones

Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level p...

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Poetry

Culture Studies

Medicine Show

Yuill Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226971650, ISBN: HB: 9780226971643, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
80 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "Medicine Show", inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and...

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Law

Family, Law, and Community Supporting the Covenant

Brinig Margaret F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226074993, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 tables, 14 halftones

In the wake of vast social and economic changes, the nuclear family has lost its dominance, both as an ideal and in practice. Some welcome this shift, while others see civilization itself in peril – but few move beyond ideology to develop a nuanced u...

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Jewish Studies

Figural Jew Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought

Hammerschlag Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226315126, ISBN: HB: 9780226315119, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm

The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers reca...

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Cartography

No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534688, ISBN: HB: 9780226534671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
242 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings, 63 halftones

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain...

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Biography & Memoires

Media Studies

Early Royko Up Against It in Chicago

Royko Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226730776, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
232 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution – in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time".Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...

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Ancient World

Death in Babylon Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226037363, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
272 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 halftones

Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronic...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher

Harris Leonard, Molesworth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226317779, ISBN: HB: 9780226317762, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that "the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem". Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promot...

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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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Criminology

Last Words of the Executed

Elder Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226202686, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour – and only they can be sure that their last words will be...

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