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Cultural Studies

Fashionable Food Seven Decades of Food Fads

Lovegren Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9780226494074, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
464 pp., 22.8x18 cm, 35 halftones, 7 line illus.

Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashio...

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History of Art

Jean-Antoine Houdon Sculptor of the Enlightenment

Poulet Anne L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676494, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
400 pp., 28.1x22.8 cm, 144 colour plates, 225 halftones

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1826) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century, flourishing during both the American and French Revolutions as well as during the Directoire and Empire in France. Whe...

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Philosophy

Gender Studies

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

Afary Janet, Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007861, ISBN: HB: 9780226007854, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for "Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur". During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault tr...

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Christianity

Priests A Calling in Crisis

Greeley Andrew M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226306452, ISBN: HB: 9780226306445, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
156 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 10 tables

For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Church – and a small number of...

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Buddhism

Reference

Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493152, ISBN: HB: 9780226493145, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the past century, Buddhism has come to be seen as a world religion, exceeding Christianity in longevity and, according to many, philosophical wisdom. Buddhism has also increasingly been described as strongly ethical, devoted to nonviolence, and...

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Philosophy

Camus and Sartre The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It

Aronson Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780226000244, ISBN: HB: 9780226027968, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
302 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides ra...

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Literary Criticism

Biography & Memoires

Edward Said Continuing the Conversation

Mitchell W. J. T., Bhabha Homi K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532035, ISBN: HB: 9780226532011, University of Chicago Press, April 2005
200 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation", Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of...

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Contemporary Art

GONE Site-Specific Works by Dorothy Cross

Lydenberg Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781892850096, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, April 2005
120 pp., 25.6x20.7 cm, 123 colour plates, 3 halftones

Over the past few decades, site-specific art has evolved into an international phenomenon, drawing viewers to installations in familiar public arenas as well as remote and unusual places. Irish artist Dorothy Cross has emerged as one of the form's mo...

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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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History of Art

Paper Museums The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

Zorach Rebecca, Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573404, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2005
168 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 113 halftones

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to...

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