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Cartography

Olshin Benjamin B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226149820, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 23 halftones, 3 line drawings

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled "Il Milione", later known as "The Travels of Marco Polo". While Polo's writings would g...

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History of Art

Ink, Paper, Politics WPA-Era Prints from the Needles Collection

Lincoln Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780978907488, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, October 2014
90 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 45 halftones

The Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. Of all these forms, however, the printmaking supported by the WPA is perhaps the one of most enduri...

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General

Abductive Analysis Theorizing Qualitative Research

Tavory Iddo, Timmermans Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226180311, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

In "Abductive Analysis", Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory formation without locking it int...

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Fiction

Nightwatches of Bonaventura

Bonaventura

ISBN: PB: 9780226141565, ISBN: HB: 9780226141428, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura", "The Nightwatches of Bonaventura" is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. The narrator and antihero is not Bonaventura but a night watchman named...

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Biography & Memoires

Once Upon a Life Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir

Ao Temsula

ISBN: PB: 9789381017982, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
248 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm

Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Tesmula Ao lost both her parents in quick succession when she was young. Left to fend for themselves, she and her five siblings ran wild, skipping school and wandering the streets. But when the authorities...

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Performing Arts

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

Tennant Victoria

ISBN: HB: 9780226167169, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 335 colour plates

In the 1930s and '40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. Thi...

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Literary Criticism

Trance-Migrations Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis

Siegel Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780226185323, ISBN: HB: 9780226185293, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out...

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Nature

How the Earth Turned Green A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

Armstrong Joseph E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226069777, ISBN: HB: 9780226069630, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 121 halftones, 31 line drawings, 4 tables

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for...

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Education

Aspiring Adults Adrift Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

Arum Richard, Roksa Josipa

ISBN: PB: 9780226197289, ISBN: HB: 9780226191157, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables

Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses – and newspaper opinion pages – as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academical...

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America

City for Children Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

Gutman Marta

ISBN: HB: 9780226311289, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 120 halftones, 14 line drawings

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast c...

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