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Political Science

Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Koger Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226449654, ISBN: HB: 9780226449647, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 51 line illus.

In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislativ...

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Law

Family, Law, and Community Supporting the Covenant

Brinig Margaret F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226074993, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 tables, 14 halftones

In the wake of vast social and economic changes, the nuclear family has lost its dominance, both as an ideal and in practice. Some welcome this shift, while others see civilization itself in peril – but few move beyond ideology to develop a nuanced u...

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Jewish Studies

Figural Jew Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought

Hammerschlag Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226315126, ISBN: HB: 9780226315119, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm

The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers reca...

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Literary Criticism

Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention

Junker Carsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593390994, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2010
294 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "Frames of Friction", Carsten Junker maps out a dazzling panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to explore the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Fireworks Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226893778, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 36 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics – in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs – have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon W...

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Linguistics

Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages

Daniele Godard

ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm

"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Pepperell Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226655390, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 370 colour illus.

Between the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the enti...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality A Sourcebook

Umansky Ellen M., Ashton Dianne

ISBN: PB: 9781584657309, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2008
404 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Much has changed for Jewish women since the first edition of Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality appeared in 1992. Associations of Jewish women – academic, religious, secular – have proliferated, making the women's voices heard. In collecti...

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Europe

From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success

Frusztajer Boruch B.

ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism Resistance and Accommodation

Hartman Tova

ISBN: PB: 9781584656593, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2008
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

University professor and social activist Tova Hartman, discouraged by failed attempts to make her modern Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem more inclusive of women, together with other worshippers, set about creating their own own, Shira Hadasha ("a new...

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