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Literary Criticism

Air's Appearance Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794

Lewis Jayne Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226476698, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

In "Air's Appearance", Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern...

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Nature

Ecology

World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity

Liittschwager David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.

Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...

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Poetry

Disposable Camera

Foxman Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780226924113, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
88 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Although "Disposable Camera" is Janet Foxman's first book-length collection, one would not know it given the wry sophistication of the poems found within. The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where Foxman considers the insta...

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Performing Arts

Literary Criticism

Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue

Logan Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226006314, ISBN: HB: 9780226491158, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as "chanson", "phantasime", or "quaestor", many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. "The Eloquent Shakespeare" aims to untie those tongues a...

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Ecology

World of Rivers Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

Wohl Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226007601, ISBN: HB: 9780226904788, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 64 halftones, 1 line illus.

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage say...

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Evolution

Evolution of Primate Societies

Mitani John C., Call Josep, Kappeler Peter M., Palombit Ryne A., Silk Joan B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226531724, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
744 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 44 tables, 157 halftones, 34 line illus.

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and...

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Law

Political Science

This Is Not Civil Rights Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America

Lovell George I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226494043, ISBN: HB: 9780226494036, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone

Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century...

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Biography & Memoires

America

And Bid Him Sing A Biography of Countee Cullen

Molesworth Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780226533643, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

While competing with Langston Hughes for the title of "Poet Laureate of Harlem", Countee Cullen (1903-1946) crafted poems that became touchstones for American readers, both black and white. Inspired by classic themes and working within traditional fo...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Hammill Graham, Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226314983, ISBN: HB: 9780226314976, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones

Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sa...

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Contemporary Art

Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt The Letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski, 1948-1971

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788393381869, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, October 2012
380 pp., 19x14 cm, 12 facsimiles and drawings, 81 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. C...

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