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Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs

Bloomfield Victor A., El-Fakahany Esam E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226060644, ISBN: HB: 9780226060637, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 1 table

Embarking upon research as a graduate student or postdoc can be exciting and enriching – the start of a rewarding career. But the world of scientific research is also a competitive one, with grants and good jobs increasingly hard to find".The Chicago...

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Jewish Studies

Ethics through Literature Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture

Stock Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781584656999, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2008
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the...

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History of Art

Art and Eskimo Power The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock

Morgan Lael

ISBN: PB: 9781602230217, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2008
258 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, black and white photos

At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people fro...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story

Vittorio Segre Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...

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Education

Succeeding as an International Student in the United States and Canada

Lipson Charles, Goodman Allan E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226484792, ISBN: HB: 9780226484785, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
380 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones

Each year, 700,000 students from around the world come to the United States and Canada to study. For many, the experience is as challenging as it is exciting. Far from home, they must adapt to a new culture, new university system, and in many cases,...

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Contemporary Art

Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings

Eckmann Sabine, Malone Meredith

ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates

Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...

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Contemporary Art

On the Margins

Colangelo Carmon

ISBN: HB: 9780936316253, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2008
64 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 36 colour plates

The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...

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Europe

From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success

Frusztajer Boruch B.

ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...

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Europe

Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism Resistance and Accommodation

Hartman Tova

ISBN: PB: 9781584656593, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2008
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

University professor and social activist Tova Hartman, discouraged by failed attempts to make her modern Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem more inclusive of women, together with other worshippers, set about creating their own own, Shira Hadasha ("a new...

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