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Education

Succeeding as an International Student in the United States and Canada

Lipson Charles, Goodman Allan E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226484792, ISBN: HB: 9780226484785, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
380 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones

Each year, 700,000 students from around the world come to the United States and Canada to study. For many, the experience is as challenging as it is exciting. Far from home, they must adapt to a new culture, new university system, and in many cases,...

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Contemporary Art

Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings

Eckmann Sabine, Malone Meredith

ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates

Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...

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Contemporary Art

On the Margins

Colangelo Carmon

ISBN: HB: 9780936316253, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2008
64 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 36 colour plates

The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...

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Europe

From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success

Frusztajer Boruch B.

ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...

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Europe

Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism Resistance and Accommodation

Hartman Tova

ISBN: PB: 9781584656593, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2008
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

University professor and social activist Tova Hartman, discouraged by failed attempts to make her modern Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem more inclusive of women, together with other worshippers, set about creating their own own, Shira Hadasha ("a new...

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Photography

Journey to Nine Islands

ISBN: PB: 9780939914098, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
96 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, colour illus.

Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of "Journey to Nine Islands" invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden – one of the nation's most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for...

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Literary Criticism

Ibuse Masuji A Century Remembered

Liman Antonin

ISBN: HB: 9788024614526, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2008
430 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Japanese novelist Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993) is best known for his 1966 novel "Kuroi Ame" (published in English as "Black Rain"), which detailed the tragic aftermath of the nuclear bombing o...

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History of Art

Eskimo Drawings

Jones Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781885267054, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm

Originally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, "Eskimo Drawings" marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive...

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History of Art

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Ward Martha, Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780935573442, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2008
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 67 halftones

Different eras experience art in different ways – often dramatically so".Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France", the catalog to an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, uses a selection of prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and re...

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