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Journey to Nine Islands

ISBN: PB: 9780939914098, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
96 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, colour illus.

Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of "Journey to Nine Islands" invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden – one of the nation's most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for...

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Literary Criticism

Ibuse Masuji A Century Remembered

Liman Antonin

ISBN: HB: 9788024614526, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2008
430 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Japanese novelist Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993) is best known for his 1966 novel "Kuroi Ame" (published in English as "Black Rain"), which detailed the tragic aftermath of the nuclear bombing o...

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History of Art

Eskimo Drawings

Jones Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781885267054, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm

Originally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, "Eskimo Drawings" marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive...

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History of Art

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Ward Martha, Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780935573442, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2008
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 67 halftones

Different eras experience art in different ways – often dramatically so".Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France", the catalog to an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, uses a selection of prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and re...

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Jewish Studies

Judaism Musical and Unmusical

Steinberg Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226771953, ISBN: HB: 9780226771946, University of Chicago Press, January 2008
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity".Judaism Musical and Unmusical" traces the formulation of this secular Jewishness from its Enlightenment roots...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Queering the Underworld Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History

Herring Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226327914, ISBN: HB: 9780226327907, University of Chicago Press, December 2007
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing

At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid detai...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Israel in the Middle East Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present

Rabinovich Itamar, Reinharz Jehuda

ISBN: PB: 9780874519624, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2007
650 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This timely anthology, completely revised and updated from the original edition in 1984, provides convenient access to the most significant documents of the Zionist movement since 1882 and of Israel's domestic and foreign policy issues between 1948 a...

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History of Art

Again Selected Interviews and Essays

Blair Dike

ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates

Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...

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Photography

Chicago under Glass Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News

Jacob Mark, Cahan Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226089300, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
272 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 260 duotones

When the "Chicago Daily News" closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original".The Daily News" boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben...

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Cultural Studies

Pasta and Pizza

La Cecla Franco

ISBN: PB: 9780979405716, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2007
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Pasta and pizza, in all their infinitely delicious and universally appealing varieties, are inextricably connected to Italian identity. These familiar foods not only represent Italy's culinary traditions, according to anthropologist Franco La Cecla,...

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