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Biography & Memoires

To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey

Fischer Victor, Wohlforth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...

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Grains of Gold Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler

Chopel Gendun

ISBN: HB: 9780226091976, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings

In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native lan...

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Physics

Biography & Memoires

Fermi Remembered

Cronin James W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings

Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...

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Kurt Wolff A Portrait in Essays and Letters

Wolff Kurt

ISBN: PB: 9780226104805, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 figures

Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two conti...

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Jewish Studies

Looking for Strangers The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

Katz Dori

ISBN: HB: 9780226058627, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she migh...

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Triumph of Human Empire Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

Williams Rosalind

ISBN: HB: 9780226899558, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 11 halftones

In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of...

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World

Love and Freedom Three Lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India

Tendulkar Dhaul Laxmi

ISBN: PB: 9789381017661, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 30 halftones

In the early 1930s, Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. There, Ayii, eventually became well-known journalist in Berlin and he met and fell in love with the reno...

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Privilege of Intellect Conscience and Wisdom in Newman's Narrative

Drennen D. A.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662100, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, September 2013
400 pp., 25x15 cm

Based on decades of research, "A Privilege of Intellect" is D. A. Drennen's portrait of the English cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890), whose conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845 significantly boosted the presence of the Catholic Churc...

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Culture Studies

You Were Never in Chicago

Steinberg Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226104157, ISBN: HB: 9780226772059, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residen...

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Jewish Studies

Germany's Prophet Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism

Sieg Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9781584657552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recognized in his own time and also today as a leading scholar of the origins and development of the Septuagint and its sources, Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a vituperative German nationalist and an antisemite whose writings inspired the National...

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