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Culture Studies

Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music

Stokes Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones

At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...

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Biography & Memoires

Royko in Love Mike's Letters to Carol

Royko Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780226730783, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
254 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 15 halftones

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder "what Royko would have said" about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he har...

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Europe

Rethinking France Les Lieux de memoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

Nora Pierre, Jordan David P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591353, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
504 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 77 halftones

The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the histor...

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Poetry

Romey's Order

Riley Atsuro

ISBN: PB: 9780226719443, ISBN: HB: 9780226719429, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
64 pp., 23x15 cm

"Romey's Order" is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records – and...

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Business & Economics

Reforming the Welfare State Recovery and Beyond in Sweden

Freeman Richard B., Swedenborg Birgitta, Topel Robert H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261928, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 54 tables, 75 line illus.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostere...

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Linguistics

Reality Exploration and Discovery Pattern Interaction in Language and Life

Uyechi Linda Ann, Wee Lian-Hee

ISBN: PB: 9781575865881, ISBN: HB: 9781575865898, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
438 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-five papers in this volume present current analyses of a variety of data and, more significantly, illustrate the various analytical tools available to linguists in the quest for deeper comprehension of the puzzles, questions, and problems...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Research Findings in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903064, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 106 line illus.

The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of leading rese...

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Mammals

Recent Mammals of Alaska

Cook Joseph A., MacDonald Stephen O.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230729, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
399 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 110 maps, 50 line illus.

From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehen...

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Philosophy

Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader

Deely John

ISBN: PB: 9781589661486, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2010
465 pp., 23x15 cm

"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely – a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a prag...

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History of Art

Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...

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