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Judaism

Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls The Torah's Covenant Affirmed

Siegel Sharon R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684179, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This engaging book offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, philosophy, and social trends that underpin modern welcoming ceremonies for newborn girls in the Jewish community. Sharon R. Siegel traces the arc of these ceremonies from their em...

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Business & Economics

General

Job-Search Games Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences

Sharone Ofer

ISBN: PB: 9780226073538, ISBN: HB: 9780226073361, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Today 4. 7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it's above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent....

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Music

Jazz on the River

Howland Kenney William

ISBN: PB: 9780226102672, ISBN: HB: 9780226437330, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 1 map

Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer mon...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 20

Frellesuig Bjarke, Sells Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781575866383, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
550 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 1 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971322, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
576 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line illus.

nthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West" t...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 2 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971346, ISBN: HB: 9780226971339, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
432 pp., 23x15 cm

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 3 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971377, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

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Fiction

Journey to the West, Volume 4 Revised Edition

Yu Anthony C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226971391, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line illus.

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and Diaspora Nationalism Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States

Rabinovitch Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781584657620, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the...

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Photography

Media Studies

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage

Zervigon Andres Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226981772, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 134 halftones, 9 colour illus.

Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he assembled images that...

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