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Anthropology

Mediterranean Incarnate Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II

Ben-Yehoyada Naor

ISBN: PB: 9780226451022, ISBN: HB: 9780226450971, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

In "The Mediterranean Incarnate", anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the "Naumachos" for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia. He also takes us on a historical exploration of the past eighty years...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Pistiros VI The Pistiros Hoard

Bouzek Jan, Militky Jiri, Taneva Valentina, Domaradzka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024633015, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2017
246 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 57 colour plates, 12 maps, 46 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This sixth and final installment in the Pistiros series devoted to excavations in that former Greek emporium in inland Thrace (today Bulgaria) closes an extraordinary, three-decade-long co...

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History of Art

Circulation

Brunet Francois

ISBN: PB: 9780932171610, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2017
208 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 58 colour plates

As a category in art history, circulation is rooted in the contemporary context of Internet culture and the digital image. Yet circulation, as a broader concept for the movement of art across time and space in vastly different cultural and media cont...

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General

Media Studies

Social Media – New Masses

Baxmann Inge, Beyes Timon, Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 30

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226441139, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The research papers in Volume 30 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" make significant contributions to the academic literature in public finance and provide important conceptual and empirical input to policy design. In the first paper, Gerald Carlino and...

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Jewish Studies

Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000

Burke Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781512600384, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2017
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 51, 2016

Baetjer Katharine, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226438047, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the museum's collection. Highlights of Volume 51 include a reassessment of a Degas pastel, an examination of painted Maya vessels from the third to tenth...

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Europe

Travel

Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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Anthropology

Linguistics

Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society

Benveniste Emile

ISBN: PB: 9780986132599, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since its publication in 1969, Emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire – here in a new translation as the "Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society" – has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocu...

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Linguistics

Polonica

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions

Blaszczak Joanna, Giannakidou Anastasia, Klimek-Jankowska Dorota, Migdalski Krzysztof

ISBN: HB: 9780226363523, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 15 line drawings, 14 tables

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these...

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