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Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

Danker Frederick William

ISBN: HB: 9780226136158, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing

Frederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of New Testament Greek, is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of Walter Bauer's "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature". With more than a quarter of a...

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America

Jewish Studies

Becoming American Jews Temple Israel of Boston

Dwyer-Ryan Meaghan, Porter Susan L., Fagin Davis Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9781584657903, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2009
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its beginning in 1854 as a traditional German shul to its current status as the largest Reform synagogue in New England, Temple Israel has been an important force in Boston and American Jewish life. The congregation's ongoing efforts to adapt to...

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Sport

Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals

Dombrowski Daniel A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226155463, University of Chicago Press, April 2009
174 pp., 22.1x14.7 cm

Despite their influence in our culture, sports inspire dramatically less philosophical consideration than such ostensibly weightier topics as religion, politics, or science. Arguing that athletic playfulness coexists with serious underpinnings, and t...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow

Dwork Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226511863, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
280 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 124 colour illus.

"With simple means, without any 'title', this book should in distant times always be in your memory". An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezin (Theresienst...

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Contemporary Art

Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Drucker Johanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226165059, ISBN: HB: 9780226165042, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 32 halftones

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that conte...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

History of the Surrealist Movement

Durozoi Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780226174129, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
816 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 232 colour plates, 777 halftones

From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andre Breton, Gerard Durozoi here provides the most comprehensive history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozo...

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Photography

Anthracite Ghosts

Dinteman Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780940866454, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
103 pp., 28x21.7 cm

Walter Dinteman wandered the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1973, photographic the remains of the anthracite coal industry. Many of these buildings have long since decayed. Dinteman's photographs tell the story of beauty amid d...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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Contemporary Art

Rebecca Morris Paintings 1996-2005

Dieerichsen Diedrich, Westfall Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780941548496, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2005
88 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 39 colour plates

If the closure of Modernist painting is taken as the closure of painting itself, then under the aegis of postmodernism, painting's history is a finite collection of fully legible styles up for being quoted. In this circumstance, the question arises o...

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Jewish Studies

Orientalism and the Jews

Davidson Kalmar Ivan, Penslar Derek

ISBN: PB: 9781584654117, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2004
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

At the turn of the twenty-first century, in spite of growing globalization there remains in the world a split between the West and the rest. The manner in which this split has been imagined and represented in Western civilization has been the subject...

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