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Anthropology

Gwich'in Athabascan Implements History, Manufacture, and Usage According to Reverend David Salmon

O'Brien Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231443, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
202 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 73 halftones, 43 line illus.

The most detailed and well-illustrated study of material culture for any northern Athabascan language group to date, "Gwich'in Athabascan Implements" reproduces pre- and early post-contact tools that are historically important to the Athabaskan peopl...

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Fiction

Literary Criticism

Surprising Adventures of Balthazar

Orrego Vicuna Claudio

ISBN: HB: 9781589662186, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm

A parable rich in imagery and meaning, "The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar" provides readers of all ages with profound insights into the nature of authority, power, and freedom. The tale begins when a polar bear named Balthazar is captured by hun...

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Cartography

Atlas of Socio Spatial Differentiation of the Czech Republic

Ourednicek Martin, Temelova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: PB: 9788024618890, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2011
150 pp., 31x31 cm, 37 maps, 50 graphs, 50 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This unique atlas visually depicts a variety of transformational processes that occurred in the Czech Republic during the past twenty years. Central to the transformation was a rapid econo...

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Biography & Memoires

Mysticism of Kindness The Lucie Christine Story

O'Brien Astrid M.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662063, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

On the surface, Lucie Christine – the pseudonym given to a nineteenth-century Frenchwoman named Mathilde Boutle – was a very ordinary upper-middle-class woman, fulfilling her daily responsibilities to her husband and children. But underneath, Lucie C...

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Political Science

Paradoxes of Integration Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multiethnic America

Oliver J. Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226626635, ISBN: HB: 9780226626628, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 43 line illus.

The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society".The Paradoxes of Integration" helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships amo...

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Culture Studies

Fools Are Everywhere The Court Jester Around the World

Otto Beatrice K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226640921, University of Chicago Press, August 2007
444 pp., 23x15 cm, 49 halftones, 66 line drawings

In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history – the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, f...

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Fashion

Alaska Eskimo Footwear

Oakes Jill

ISBN: PB: 9781602230064, ISBN: HB: 9781889963808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2007
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

"Alaska Eskimo Footwear" celebrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. Stunning photography brings the harsh and striking environment of the North alive and demonstrates how essentia...

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Cartography

Philosophy

Abysmal A Critique of Cartographic Reason

Olsson Gunnar

ISBN: HB: 9780226629308, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
584 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 45 halftones, 2 maps, 24 figures

People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers i...

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History of Art

Ruthless Hedonism The American Reception of Matisse

O'Brian John

ISBN: HB: 9780226616261, University of Chicago Press, July 1999
298 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 30 colour plates, 75 halftones

"Oh, do tell the American people that I am a normal man; that I am a devoted husband and father, that I have three fine children, that I go to the theatre". These words were spoken by Matisse just before the Armory Show in 1913 – a pivotal moment, af...

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