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Linguistics

Concreteness in Grammar

Dobrin Lise

ISBN: PB: 9781575866062, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Based on an exhaustive search of published sources and the author's firsthand fieldwork, "Concreteness in Grammar" explores the role of phonological form in the noun class systems of the Arapesh languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. Linguists have lo...

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Criminology

Culture Studies

Subject of Murder Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

Downing Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226003542, ISBN: HB: 9780226003405, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen – a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart f...

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Gender Studies

Intimate Matters A History of Sexuality in America (Third Edition)

D'Emilio John, Freedman Estelle B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923802, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
536 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 55 halftones, 11 line illus.

As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, "Intimate Matters" offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this gr...

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Music

Not without Madness Perspectives on Opera

Della Seta Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9780226749143, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 musical examples, 8 tables

Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension betw...

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Music

Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland

Dawn Goss Glenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226005478, ISBN: HB: 9780226304779, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
549 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 47 musical examples, 36 halftones, 12 colour illus.

One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop o...

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Contemporary Art

Philosophy

Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp

de Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226922386, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 halftones

Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that c...

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Philosophy

Soul of the Greeks An Inquiry

Davis Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004495, ISBN: HB: 9780226137964, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm

The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal,...

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America

Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins John Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226004525, ISBN: HB: 9780226148830, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
152 pp., 22x14 cm

Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers". John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war". Andrew Sullivan has said, "We need Niebuhr now more than ever". For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinh...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France

Douthwaite Julia V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226160580, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones, 2 line illus.

The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book...

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General

Culture Studies

Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...

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