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Philosophy

After Life

Thacker Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226793726, ISBN: HB: 9780226793719, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Life is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

Sephardic Legacy Unique Features and Achievements

Toledano Henry

ISBN: PB: 9781589662056, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
275 pp., 23x15 cm

Fundamentally different from other more prominent, Jewish traditions and experiences, the Sephardic tradition has long served to bind together the various Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin. In "The Sephardic Legacy", Henry Toledano immers...

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Europe

Prague Palimpsest Writing, Memory, and the City

Thomas Alfred

ISBN: HB: 9780226795409, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly...

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General

Marriage and Cohabitation

Thornton Arland, Axinn William G., Xie Yu

ISBN: PB: 9780226798677, ISBN: HB: 9780226798660, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 16 line illus.

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women...

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Political Science

Islam

Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9780226805757, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation – exacerbated by terrorist attack...

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Law

Czech Law between Europeanization and Globalization

Tomasek Michal

ISBN: HB: 9788024617855, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
600 pp., 24.1x17 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 2005 the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic granted to the Charles University Law Faculty funds to research developments in Czech law from the last twenty yea...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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Islam

Medieval

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

Touati Houari

ISBN: HB: 9780226808772, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures – touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North...

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Law

Parchment, Paper, Pixels Law and the Technologies of Communication

Tiersma Peter M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226803067, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society – perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empi...

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Earth Sciences

Changing Arctic Landscape

Tape Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...

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