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History of Art

Anthropology

Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago

Grams Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780226305172, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 7 figures, 2 tables, 2 halftones

In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers operating beneath...

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Ancient World

Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Charpin Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9780226101583, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization – home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code o...

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Biography & Memoires

Mysticism of Kindness The Lucie Christine Story

O'Brien Astrid M.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662063, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

On the surface, Lucie Christine – the pseudonym given to a nineteenth-century Frenchwoman named Mathilde Boutle – was a very ordinary upper-middle-class woman, fulfilling her daily responsibilities to her husband and children. But underneath, Lucie C...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow A Guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive

Fishman David E., Kupovetsky Mark, Kuzelenkov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781589662209, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

During their ascendency and subsequent occupation of much of Europe, the Nazis plundered the documents and cultural treasures of Jewish organizations as well as other groups and individuals they deemed to be enemies of the Reich. When the Nazis were...

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Asia

Law

Asian Legal Revivals Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire

Dezalay Yves, Garth Bryant G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226144634, ISBN: HB: 9780226144627, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Lega...

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Photography

Still Rainin' Still Dreamin' Hall Anderson's Ketchikan

Anderson Hall

ISBN: PB: 9781889963907, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
118 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 halftones

A staff photographer for the Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson counted among his early influences photographers like Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who understood the visual bounty to be found in photographing the candid side of life. For...

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Architecture

Architecture, Means and Ends

Gregotti Vittorio

ISBN: HB: 9780226307589, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
144 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Vittorio Gregotti – the architect of Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, Milan's Arcimboldi Opera Theater, and Lisbon's Centro Cultural de Belem, among many other noted constructions – is not only a designer of international repute but an acclaimed theorist...

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Political Science

Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

Tesler Michael, Sears David O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226793832, ISBN: HB: 9780226793825, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 37 line illus.

Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era".Obama's Race" – and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election – paints a dramatically...

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Middle East

Islam

Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890

Arjomand Said Amir

ISBN: PB: 9780226027845, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Dismissing oversimplified and politically-charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of w...

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Philosophy

After Life

Thacker Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226793726, ISBN: HB: 9780226793719, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Life is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching...

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