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Looking for Strangers The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

Katz Dori

ISBN: HB: 9780226058627, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she migh...

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Biography & Memoires

World

Love and Freedom Three Lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India

Tendulkar Dhaul Laxmi

ISBN: PB: 9789381017661, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 30 halftones

In the early 1930s, Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. There, Ayii, eventually became well-known journalist in Berlin and he met and fell in love with the reno...

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Law

Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition A Text with Exercises

Garner Bryan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226283937, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
256 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 8 tables, 69 line illus.

Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful – all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for obscurity and needless legalese is widespread. Since 2001 Bryan A. Garner's "Legal Writing in Plain English" has...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

Hart Green Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780226307015, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides", Kenneth Hart Green explores the critical role played by Maimonides in shaping Leo Strauss's thought. In uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed", Strauss m...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Lost World of Fossil Lake Snapshots from Deep Time

Grande Lance

ISBN: HB: 9780226922966, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 tables, 243 colour plates, 3 line illus.

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...

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Law

Learning to Love Form 1040 Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax

Zelenak Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226018928, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
168 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

No one likes paying taxes, much less the process of filing tax returns. For years, would-be reformers have advocated replacing the return-based mass income tax with a flat tax, federal sales tax, or some combination thereof. Congress itself has commi...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss on Maimonides The Complete Writings

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226776774, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
696 pp., 23x15 cm

Leo Strauss is widely recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of Maimonides. His studies of the medieval Jewish philosopher led to his rediscovery of esotericism and deepened his sense that the tension between reason and revelation was central...

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America

Long View Dispatches on Alaska History

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9780974922171, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
225 pp., 20x12.7 cm, 53 halftones

Too often the history of a place is reduced to a list of dates and a handful of major events, ignoring the daily stories that help shape its legacy".In The Long View", Ross Coen stops to explore the smaller yet extremely meaningful moments in Alaska'...

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Children's Books

Lucy's Dance

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602231269, ISBN: HB: 9781602231276, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
29 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 18 colour illus.

A charming children's book about the return of traditional dancing to one Yup'ik village, "Lucy's Dance" tells the story of a little girl who is determined to help her grandfather demonstrate for the people of the town the beauty and complexity of ol...

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Jewish Studies

Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

Geary Patrick J.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683912, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2013
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinatin...

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