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Cultural Studies

Oldest Cuisine in the World Cooking in Mesopotamia

Bottero Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226067346, ISBN: HB: 9780226067353, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
152 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottero presents the first extensive look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. Bottero's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and tab...

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Contemporary Art

Of What One Cannot Speak Doris Salcedo's Political Art

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035789, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23.4x18.3 cm, 31 halftones, 28 colour illus.

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in orde...

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Political Science

Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

Tesler Michael, Sears David O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226793832, ISBN: HB: 9780226793825, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 37 line illus.

Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era".Obama's Race" – and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election – paints a dramatically...

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Biography & Memoires

Astronomy

On Sunspots

Galilei Galileo, Scheiner Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9780226707167, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
410 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 108 halftones

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or m...

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Business & Economics

Out of the Pits Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

Zaloom Caitlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226978147, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
238 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In "Out of the Pits", Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader, as well as on her unusual access to key sites of global finan...

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History

Osiris, Volume 25 Expertise: Practical Knowledge and the Early Modern State

Ash Eric H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226029399, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

This newest annual edition of "Osiris" brings together a variety of scholars to consider a topic of increasing interest in the history of science: expertise. Focusing specifically on the role expertise has played in the support, legitimation, and gro...

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Evolution

Nature

Orchard Invisible A Natural History of Seeds

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226757742, ISBN: HB: 9780226757735, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 21 halftones

The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five-pound double coconut borne by the coco de mer tree, seeds are a perpetual reminder of the complexity and diversity of lif...

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Earth Sciences

On Sea Ice

Weeks Willy

ISBN: HB: 9781602230798, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
664 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 354 graphs and figures

Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere – and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With "On Sea Ice", geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a n...

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Literary Criticism

Oedipus the King

Sophocles

ISBN: PB: 9780226768687, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
88 pp., 20x13 cm

Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Compl...

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Contemporary Art

On the Margins

Colangelo Carmon

ISBN: HB: 9780936316253, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2008
64 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 36 colour plates

The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...

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