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History of Art

Sleeping Beauty A One-Artist Dictionary

Bal Mieke, Sparagana John

ISBN: HB: 9780226035529, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
136 pp., 29.2x23.9 cm, 33 colour plates

The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic".Sleeping Beauty" ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them...

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Philosophy

Symbolic Construction of Reality The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer

Barash Jeffrey Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780226036861, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1933 eminent philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) fled Nazi Germany for the United States. His fame in Europe having already been established through a public debate with Martin Heidegger in 1929, Cassirer would go on to become a noteworthy infl...

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Education

Succeeding as an International Student in the United States and Canada

Lipson Charles, Goodman Allan E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226484792, ISBN: HB: 9780226484785, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
380 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones

Each year, 700,000 students from around the world come to the United States and Canada to study. For many, the experience is as challenging as it is exciting. Far from home, they must adapt to a new culture, new university system, and in many cases,...

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Greek & Latin

Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek An Introduction (Third Edition)

Rijksbaron Albert

ISBN: PB: 9780226718583, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
228 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. Available now in a special reprint for the North America...

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Reference

Scientific Literature A Guided Tour

Harmon Joseph E., Gross Alan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316567, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 27 line drawings

The scientific article has been a hallmark of the career of every important western scientist since the seventeenth century. Yet its role in the history of science has not been fully explored. Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross remedy this oversight...

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General

Sociology in America A History

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090955, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
880 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 9 maps, 6 tables

Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that s...

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Jewish Studies

Suddenly Jewish Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots

Kessel Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9781584656203, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2007
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One woman learned on the eve of her Roman Catholic wedding. One man as he was studying for the priesthood. Madeleine Albright famously learned from the Washington Post when she was named Secretary of State. "What is it like to find out you are not wh...

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Architecture

America

Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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Cartography

Sovereign Map Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History

Christian Jacob

ISBN: HB: 9780226389530, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 45 halftones, 15 line drawings

A novel work in the history of cartography, "The Sovereign Map" argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. As a classicist, Christian Jacob brings a fresh eye to his subject...

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Contemporary Art

Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Drucker Johanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226165059, ISBN: HB: 9780226165042, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 32 halftones

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that conte...

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