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Philosophy

Psychology

Intimacies

Bersani Leo, Phillips Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226043456, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
134 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central...

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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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Christianity

Idea of the Catholic University Proceedings from the 30th Annual Conference of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars

Whitehead Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9781589662193, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2010
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For decades, those involved in Catholic higher education – including professors, administrators, theologians, philosophers, and students – have perennially taken on the challenge of defining and clarifying what exactly and uniquely characterizes thei...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2009 Volume 10

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473345, ISBN: HB: 9780226473338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2010
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

"Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors cover all types of policy that affect the ability of an economy to ache...

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Cultural Studies

Italian Way Food and Social Life

Harper Douglas, Faccioli Patrizia

ISBN: HB: 9780226317243, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
320 pp., 25.4x18.5 cm, 160 halftones

Outside of Italy, the country's culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as "The Italian Way" makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life...

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Travel

Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-1959

Bull Colin

ISBN: PB: 9781602230712, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
267 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 2 graphs, 81 colour illus.

In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first of what has become...

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Gender Studies

Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226043548, ISBN: HB: 9780226043524, University of Chicago Press, December 2009
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...

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Jewish Studies

Is It Good for the Jews? More Stories from the Old Country and the New

Biro Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226052175, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
152 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Jewish stories", writes Adam Biro, "resemble every people's stories". Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales – "There's...

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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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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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