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Biography & Memoires

Lady Anatomist The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini

Messbarger Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226520810, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
248 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 colour plates, 20 halftones

Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment".The Lady Anatomist" tells the story of her arresti...

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Gender Studies

Law of Love From Autonomy to Communion

Brett Stephen F.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662070, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
180 pp., 21.5x13 cm

With an interdisciplinary combination of philosophy, theology, and family law, "The Law of Love" explores the impact of secular conceptions of autonomy on sexuality and family. Drawing from the thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and th...

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Business & Economics

Labor in the New Economy

Abraham Katharine G., Spletzer James R., Harper Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226001432, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2010
568 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 tables, 174 line illus.

As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the...

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Performing Arts

Leading Roles 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781584659068, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not-for-profit arts organizations struggled to survive the recent economic recession. In this increasingly hardscrabble environment, it is absolutely imperative that the boards of these organizations function as energetically, creatively, and efficie...

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Linguistics

Layers of Aspect

Hofherr Patricia Cabredo, Laca Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781575865966, ISBN: HB: 9781575865973, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2010
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The eight articles in this volume reexamine the syntactic and semantic analyses of aspect that have been proposed mainly on the basis of aspectual expressions in English. The authors contrast expressions sharing an analogous morpho-syntactic make-up...

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Philosophy

Law in the Laboratory A Guide to the Ethics of Federally Funded Science Research

Charrow Robert P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101651, ISBN: HB: 9780226101644, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line illus.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together fund more than $40 billon of research annually in the United States and around the globe. These large public expenditures come with strings, including a complex set of law...

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Europe

Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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Criminology

Last Words of the Executed

Elder Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226202686, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour – and only they can be sure that their last words will be...

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Poetry

Love Poems by Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine

Salinas Pedro

ISBN: HB: 9780226734262, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

When Pedro Salinas's 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman,...

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Contemporary Art

Light Club On Paul Scheerbart's "The Light Club of Batavia"

McElheny Josiah

ISBN: HB: 9780226514574, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
104 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 8 halftones

Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture,...

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