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Photography

Images of the West Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880

Griffith Bronwyn, Brunet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780932171542, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, August 2007
136 pp., 28.6x23.3 cm, 100 colour plates

As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...

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Culture Studies

Fools Are Everywhere The Court Jester Around the World

Otto Beatrice K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226640921, University of Chicago Press, August 2007
444 pp., 23x15 cm, 49 halftones, 66 line drawings

In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history – the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, f...

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History of Art

Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

Fair Susan W.

ISBN: PB: 9781889963822, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2007
312 pp., 26.8x21.5 cm, 220 colour plates, 85 halftones, 2 colour maps

Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests,"Alaska Native Art" celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it cont...

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Greek & Latin

Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek An Introduction (Third Edition)

Rijksbaron Albert

ISBN: PB: 9780226718583, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
228 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. Available now in a special reprint for the North America...

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Literary Criticism

Vladislav Vancura The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde

Chitnis Rajendra A.

ISBN: PB: 9788024614564, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2007
226 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This is the first major analytical study in English of the work of the leading Czech Avant-garde novelist and dramatist, Vladislav Vancura, often regarded as the greatest exponent of the C...

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Law

Legal Analyst A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

Farnsworth Ward

ISBN: PB: 9780226238357, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
326 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of o...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Invention of Heterosexuality

Katz Jonathan Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226426013, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
305 pp., 21.2x15.5 cm, 1 haltone

"Heterosexuality", assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and h...

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Fashion

Alaska Eskimo Footwear

Oakes Jill

ISBN: PB: 9781602230064, ISBN: HB: 9781889963808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2007
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

"Alaska Eskimo Footwear" celebrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. Stunning photography brings the harsh and striking environment of the North alive and demonstrates how essentia...

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Philosophy

Late Derrida

Mitchell W. J. T., Davidson Arnold I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532578, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
200 pp., 23x15 cm

The rubric "The Late Derrida", with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period Derrida publishe...

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Reference

Scientific Literature A Guided Tour

Harmon Joseph E., Gross Alan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316567, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 27 line drawings

The scientific article has been a hallmark of the career of every important western scientist since the seventeenth century. Yet its role in the history of science has not been fully explored. Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross remedy this oversight...

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