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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 48, 2013

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226156804, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 48 includes essays on "From Tarporley to Dolo...

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General

Culture Studies

Revisiting the Sixties Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade

Bieger Laura, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593399904, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
343 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 22 halftones

The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Summer of Love – the1960s were one of the most turbulent decades in US history. These years launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America", dividing...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Story Larger than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers

Burroway Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780226014104, ISBN: HB: 9780226014074, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the "Saturday Evening Post".Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine – but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work....

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Music

Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Basevi Abramo

ISBN: HB: 9780226094915, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 – from "Nabucco"...

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Cartography

London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689

Batchelor Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226080659, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trade...

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Film Studies

Jewish Studies

Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen

Brook Vincent, Grinberg Marat

ISBN: PB: 9781611684803, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contribut...

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Anthropology

Social Life of Spirits

Blanes Ruy, Espirito Santo Diana

ISBN: PB: 9780226081779, ISBN: HB: 9780226081632, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else – symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same wa...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 27

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226097794, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2013
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taxation policy was a central part of the policy debates over the "fiscal cliff". Given the importance of fiscal issues, it is vital for rigorous empirical research to inform the policy dialogue. In keeping with the NBER's tradition of carrying out r...

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Anthropology

Religious Bodies Politic Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

Bernstein Anya

ISBN: PB: 9780226072722, ISBN: HB: 9780226072555, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 6 tables

"Religious Bodies Politic" examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist pop...

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Anthropology

Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja From Aluk Todolo to "New" Religions

Budiman Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9788024622286, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
170 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 40 halftones, 3 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Sa'dan Toraja are an ethnic group who live primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This rigorous academic study by noted expert Michaela Budiman examines the deep cultural shif...

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