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Contemporary Art

Dwan Gallery Los Angeles to New York, 1959-1971

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226425108, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 325 colour plates, 90 halftones

Copublished with the National Gallery of Art in celebration of Virginia Dwan's gift to the Gallery of her extraordinary personal collection, "Dwan Gallery" explores her remarkable career. Dwan is one of the most influential figures in the history of...

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Nature

Microbes from Hell

Forterre Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780226265827, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists – prokaryotes versus eukaryotes – was upended by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms: archaea. Initially thought to be bacteria, these single...

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Film Studies

Place for Us "West Side Story"‌ and New York

Foulkes Julia L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226301808, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 53 halftones

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, "West Side Story" is nothing less than an American touchstone – an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of pos...

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Literary Criticism

Jane Austen's Names Riddles, Persons, Places

Doody Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226419107, ISBN: HB: 9780226157832, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey", is a...

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Reference

Craft of Research Fourth Edition

Booth Wayne C., Colomb Gregory G., Williams Joseph M., Bizup Joseph, FitzGerald William T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226239736, ISBN: HB: 9780226239569, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 8 tables

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, "The Craft of Research" has helped generations of researchers at every level – from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in...

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Biography & Memoires

Man Who Stole Himself The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

Palsson Gisli

ISBN: HB: 9780226313283, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 49 halftones

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things – majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood – but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family...

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General

Landscapes of Accumulation Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India

Guiu Searle Llerena

ISBN: PB: 9780226385068, ISBN: HB: 9780226384900, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 7 tables

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious...

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Film Studies

Great Movies IV

Ebert Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226403984, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

No film critic has ever been as influential – or as beloved – as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and...

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Colouring Books for Adults

Nature's Portraits A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

Macnamara Peggy

ISBN: PB: 9780226431550, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 60 halftones

When it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal and the muted greens, ambers, and browns that make up the shell of a tortoise. Wildl...

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Contemporary Art

Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago

Corbett John, Dempsey Jim, Moss Jessica, Born Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones

Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...

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