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Music

Civic Jazz American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along

Clark Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226218212, ISBN: HB: 9780226218182, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that...

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Education

Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

Link Albert N., Siegel Donald S., Wright Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780226178349, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to m...

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Literary Criticism

Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian, Notebooks No. 6

Meltzer Francoise

ISBN: PB: 9782952596251, University of Chicago Press, January 2015
500 pp., 20.9x14.7 cm

"Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks" publish selected papers drawn from the various advanced-level activities at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. Topics treated in each issue reflect the disciplinary diversity of conferences and lectures...

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Literary Criticism

Classicism of the Twenties Art, Music, and Literature

Ziolkowski Theodore

ISBN: HB: 9780226183985, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...

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America

Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

Tyrrell Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780226197760, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...

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Travel

Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and American Culture

Robinson Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214153, ISBN: HB: 9780226721842, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost the...

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Christianity

Cult of the Saints Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Enlarged Edition)

Brown Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226175263, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly c...

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History of Art

Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings

"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 42 Crime and Justice in America: 1975-2025

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226105925, ISBN: HB: 9780226097510, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of "law and order" took over. Among the results four decades later are the world's harsh...

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Earth Sciences

Climate Conundrums What the Climate Debate Reveals About Us

Gail William B.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704744, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings

It is generally assumed that, in polite company, you don't talk politics, religion, or money. But in recent years, it seems "climate change"‌ needs to be added to that list. Incorporating all of the above, few topics can divide a dinner party faster....

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