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Icon Curtain The Cold War's Quiet Border

Komska Yuliya

ISBN: HB: 9780226154190, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The Iron Curtain did not exist – at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historica...

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America

General

Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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Ecology

Invasive Species in a Globalized World Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy

Keller Reuben P., Cadotte Marc W., Sandiford Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9780226166186, ISBN: HB: 9780226166049, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 34 halftones, 15 line drawings, 13 tables

Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separate...

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Other

Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuninit / Inupiaq to English Dictionary

MacLean Edna

ISBN: HB: 9781602232334, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
1018 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, 1 map, 25 line drawings

This is a comprehensive treatment of one of Alaska's oldest ancestral languages. Through its 19,000 entries and thirty-one appendices – with categories such as kin terms, names of constellations, and a list of explanations – the dictionary is an exce...

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Contemporary Art

Immersive Life Practices

Tucker Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780982879849, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Much ink has been spilled on how art intersects with the experiences of everyday life. But what about art grappling with how to live differently? Artists occupy an exceptional space where their livelihood permeates all aspects of life, eroding bounda...

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Genetics

In Search of Cell History The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

Harold Franklin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226174280, ISBN: HB: 9780226174143, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With "In Search of Cell History", Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial ta...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Indian Women in the House of Fiction

Chanda Geetanjali Singh

ISBN: PB: 9789383074730, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
348 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

In her detailed readings of a wide range of Indian writers – including Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Nair, Jhumpa Lahiri and many others – Geetanjali Singh Chanda focuses on domestic spaces in women's fiction. The house is not merely a backdro...

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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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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

Performing Arts

Iphigenia among the Taurians

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203621, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
72 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. "The New York Times Book Review" calls her work "personal, necessary, and impor...

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