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Triumph of Pleasure Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

Cowart Georgia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211558, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 16 musical examples, 3 tables

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet...

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General

Trapped in America's Safety Net One Family's Struggle

Campbell Andrea Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226140445, ISBN: HB: 9780226140308, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 figures, 1 table

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived – and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends....

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Greek & Latin

Traditio An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence (Third Edition)

Johnston Patricia A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611686388, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2014
434 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Now in its third edition, "Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence" has firmly established its excellence as a textbook, whether for use in a full-year course or in a more intensive program of study. The text is designed to...

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Greek & Latin

Traditio Workbook for the Third Edition

Johnston Patricia A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611686906, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2014
242 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Now in its third edition, "Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence" has firmly established its excellence as a textbook, whether for use in a full-year course or in a more intensive program of study. The text is designed to...

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Political Science

Criminology

Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Burch Traci

ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables

The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...

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Architecture

Polonica

Team 10 East Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism

Stanek Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364177033, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 70 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries – such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polonyi of Hungary, and Rado...

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Evolution

Trilobite Book A Visual Journey

Levi-Setti Riccardo

ISBN: HB: 9780226124414, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 235 colour plates

Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras – and they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have bee...

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Women Studies

Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe

Parvulescu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...

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Political Science

America

Think Tanks in America

Medvetz Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226143668, ISBN: HB: 9780226517292, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 1 map, 12 line illus.

Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are...

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Education

Teaching the Museum Careers in Museum Education

Melber Leah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253923, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Education departments in museums of all kinds serve millions of students and adult learners every year, using the objects and other resources of the museum to teach and inspire. The rapidly growing field of museum education provides hands-on, experie...

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