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Chemistry

Image and Reality Kekule, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination

Rocke Alan J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226723327, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2010
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line drawings, 44 halftones

Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level p...

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Biography & Memoires

Media Studies

Early Royko Up Against It in Chicago

Royko Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226730776, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
232 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution – in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time".Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...

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Evolution

Earth Sciences

Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...

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Poetry

Romey's Order

Riley Atsuro

ISBN: PB: 9780226719443, ISBN: HB: 9780226719429, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
64 pp., 23x15 cm

"Romey's Order" is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records – and...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Israel in the Middle East Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present

Rabinovich Itamar, Reinharz Jehuda

ISBN: PB: 9780874519624, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2007
650 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This timely anthology, completely revised and updated from the original edition in 1984, provides convenient access to the most significant documents of the Zionist movement since 1882 and of Israel's domestic and foreign policy issues between 1948 a...

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Gender Studies

Political Science

Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

Rimmerman Craig A., Wilcox Clyde

ISBN: PB: 9780226720012, University of Chicago Press, October 2007
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

Same-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season. But in a severe blow to gay rights advocates, all eleven states that had the issue on the ballot passed amendments banning the practice, and the subject soon dropp...

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Greek & Latin

Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek An Introduction (Third Edition)

Rijksbaron Albert

ISBN: PB: 9780226718583, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
228 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. Available now in a special reprint for the North America...

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Sport

Cut Time An Education at the Fights

Rotella Carlo

ISBN: PB: 9780226725567, University of Chicago Press, September 2005
236 pp., 22x14 cm

"Boxing is not just fighting", writes Carlo Rotella".It is also training and living right and preparing to go the distance in the broadest sense of the phrase, a relentless managing of self that anyone who gets truly old must learn". Rotella's "Cut T...

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History of Art

Art of Stained Glass

Rousseau Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781589660076, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
135 pp., 29.3x21.6 cm

Stained glass windows were part of church building practices in Northeastern Pennsylvania during its boom years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book celebrates the religious significance, artistic beauty, and regional impor...

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Reinharz Shulamit, Raider Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9781584654391, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2004
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women's history, and American history,...

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