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Picturing America The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

Hornsby Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386041, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates

Instructive, amusing, colorful – pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More rece...

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Reference

Thinking Like a Political Scientist A Practical Guide to Research Methods

Howard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226327549, ISBN: HB: 9780226327402, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 figures, 9 tables

Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on researc...

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Contemporary Art

Anthropology

Creative Alaska A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013

Haakanson Sven, Steffian Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781602232853, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates

Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...

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Earth Sciences

Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...

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Political Science

Beyond Decent Work The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia

Hauf Felix

ISBN: PB: 9783593506449, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones, 3 tables

"Beyond Decent Work" explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative...

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Media Studies

Linguistics

Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create Digital Institutions

Hodgkin Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226438214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool – it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis...

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Law

Law Beyond the State Pasts and Futures

Hofmann Rainer, Kadelbach Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593506500, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Law beyond the State" brings together contributions by renowned experts on international and European Union law to celebrate the centennial of Goethe?Universitat Frankfurt. The essays explore Frankfurt's contribution to the development of internatio...

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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet

Holl Ute

ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones

Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...

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Music

Four Last Songs Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten

Hutcheon Linda, Hutcheon Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226420684, ISBN: HB: 9780226255590, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In "Four Last Songs", Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late wo...

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Fiction

Behind the Lines Bugulma and Other Tales

Hasek Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632872, ISBN: HB: 9788024620138, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2016
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 38 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel "The Good Soldier Schweik", a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI s...

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