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Biography & Memoires

Privilege of Intellect Conscience and Wisdom in Newman's Narrative

Drennen D. A.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662100, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, September 2013
400 pp., 25x15 cm

Based on decades of research, "A Privilege of Intellect" is D. A. Drennen's portrait of the English cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890), whose conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845 significantly boosted the presence of the Catholic Churc...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2012

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226052014, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the court's most significant decisions. The Review is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront of...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 20

Frellesuig Bjarke, Sells Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781575866383, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
550 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Making the News Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting

Boydstun Amber E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065571, ISBN: HB: 9780226065434, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 line drawings, 14 tables

Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is...

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Anthropology

People at the Well Kinds, Usages and Meanings of Water in a Global Perspective

Hahn Hans Peter, Cless Karlheinz, Soentgen Jens

ISBN: PB: 9783593396101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2013
316 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 tables, 7 halftones, 73 colour illus.

"People at the Well" investigates habits, practices, and meanings of water through case studies from around the world. With its wide range and impressive diversity, this volume points to water practices in different cultures and shows that water is m...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Afterlife of Piet Mondrian

Troy Nancy J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226008691, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
316 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 65 halftones

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our underst...

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Contemporary Art

Feast Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573527, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, August 2013
380 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 320 colour illus.

The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, "Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. Feast offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrat...

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Reference

Education

Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction

Tyler Ralph W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086507, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a...

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Literary Criticism

Media Studies

Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226103488, ISBN: HB: 9780226669786, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
208 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 40 halftones

Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book a...

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Literary Criticism

Dreaming in Books The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226103518, ISBN: HB: 9780226669724, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 5 maps

At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing that created the era's "bookish" culture. According to...

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