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Food for Thought Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany

Bernstein Julia

ISBN: PB: 9783593392523, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
451 pp., 21x14 cm, 35 colour illus.

In recent decades, many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. In "Food for Thought", Julia Bernstein conducts a widely interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrant...

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America

Envisioning the Nation The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture

Boger Astrid

ISBN: PB: 9783593387901, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
321 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid Boger shows in "Envisioning the Nation", at the same time the fairs played i...

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History

Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

Bliss Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226059013, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
112 pp., 21.8x14.8 cm, 26 halftones

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help – not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, b...

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Medieval

Legend of the Middle Ages Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Brague Remi

ISBN: PB: 9780226070810, ISBN: HB: 9780226070803, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Remi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinke...

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Contemporary Art

Of What One Cannot Speak Doris Salcedo's Political Art

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035789, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23.4x18.3 cm, 31 halftones, 28 colour illus.

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in orde...

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Law

Specializing the Courts

Baum Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226039558, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 22.4x15 cm, 11 tables

Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas".Specializing the Courts" provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growin...

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Ecology

Ecology of Place Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding

Billick Ian, Price Mary V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226050430, ISBN: HB: 9780226050423, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 8 tables, 42 halftones, 32 line illus.

Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change....

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Other

Let's Speak Twi A Proficiency Course in Akan Language and Culture

Bodomo Adams, Marfo Charles, Hall-Lew Lauren

ISBN: PB: 9781575866048, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
150 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 35 halftones

"Let's Speak Twi" is an introductory language-learning textbook for speakers of English and other languages who seek proficiency in Akan Twi, the most widely used and understood native language of Ghana. Included in the book are several practice exer...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility

Barker-Benfield G. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226037431, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, th...

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Fiction

South Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Cyclops

Benyo Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781589662087, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
151 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Bob Capek's mother is killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1956, his father moves the family from Virginia back to his hometown of Mauch Chunk, a small town in the middle of the eastern Pennsylvania anthracite coal region. From the moment Bob boa...

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