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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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History of Art

Lasting Impressions The Grolier Club Library

Holzenberg Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780910672528, University of Chicago Press, November 2004
224 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates, 50 halftones

Three years after the founding of the Grolier Club in 1884, the club's Library Committee was established with a mission "to gather together for the use of the members all the standard bibliographical works, as well as books relating to the art of pri...

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Jewish Studies

Orientalism and the Jews

Davidson Kalmar Ivan, Penslar Derek

ISBN: PB: 9781584654117, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2004
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

At the turn of the twenty-first century, in spite of growing globalization there remains in the world a split between the West and the rest. The manner in which this split has been imagined and represented in Western civilization has been the subject...

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Cartography

Rhumb Lines and Map Wars A Social History of the Mercator Projection

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534312, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 halftones, 26 line drawings

In "Rhumb Lines and Map Wars", Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portra...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network

Elizabeth Losos, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493466, ISBN: HB: 9780226493459, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
688 pp., 23x15 cm, 170 tables, 4 halftones, 130 line illus.

Long-term Forest Dynamics Plots (FDPs) allow ecologists to explain patterns in diversity and dynamics in tropical forests around the world. In this collection, Elizabeth Losos and Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. assemble extensive standardized data – collecte...

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Reference

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Grossman James R., Keating Ann Durkin, Reiff Janice L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226310152, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
1152 pp., 27.1x21.6 cm, 56 p. colour insert, 475 halftones, 442 maps, 10 tables

One of the great American metropolises, Chicago rises out of the prairie in the heart of the country, buffeted by winds coming off the plains and cooled by the waters of the inland sea of Lake Michigan. Chicago is a city of size and mass, the cradle...

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Philosophy

Philosophy in a Time of Terror Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

Borradori Giovanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226066660, University of Chicago Press, September 2004
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate t...

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Judaism

Song of Songs Love Lyrics from the Bible

Falk Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9781584654230, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2004
113 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Striking in its appeal to the senses, the Song of Songs – the Bible's only book of love poems – is remarkable for its lack of sexual stereotyping and its expression of mutuality in relationships between men and women. Marcia Falk's rich and lyrical t...

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Women Studies

Wedding Song Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman

Goldin Farideh

ISBN: PB: 9781584654445, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2004
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state – prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin's passionate and painful account of her childhood in a poor Jewi...

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Other

Computer Science & Internet

Disambiguation of Rich Inflection Computational Morphology of Czech

Hajic Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024602820, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2004
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! 1. Introduction 2. Formal Morphology of Czech 2. 1 Formal Morphology 2. 2 Introduction to The Czech Tag System 2. 3 The Positional Tag System for Czech 2. 4 The Compact Tag System for Czec...

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