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Fiction

From a View to a Death A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226132969, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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America

Frontier Seaport Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot

Cangany Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226096704, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables

Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the cent...

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Physics

Biography & Memoires

Fermi Remembered

Cronin James W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings

Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...

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America

Fire under the Ashes An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

Donoghue John

ISBN: HB: 9780226157658, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

In "Fire under the Ashes", John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of se...

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Europe

Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800 A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes

Cochrane Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226111513, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map

The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impre...

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Reference

From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition

Germano William

ISBN: PB: 9780226062044, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake".You know something!" I would say if it could hear me".Now tell it to us in language we can understand!" Since its publication in 2005...

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Music

From the Score to the Stage An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging

Baker Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780226035086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
416 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 2 tables, 189 colour illus.

Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life – by the stagehands who shift sc...

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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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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

First Son The Biography of Richard M. Daley

Koeneman Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780226449470, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 24 halftones

"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time', he said" – New...

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Cultural Studies

Fear of Food A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

Levenstein Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780226054902, ISBN: HB: 9780226473741, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line illus.

There may be no greater source of anxiety for Americans today than the question of what to eat and drink. Are eggs the perfect protein, or are they cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart or bad for my liver? Will pesticides, additives, and...

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