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Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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Anthropology

Islam

Varieties of Muslim Experience Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226726175, ISBN: HB: 9780226726168, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
278 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm

In "Varieties of Muslim Experience", anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist mi...

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Biography & Memoires

Vessel of Clay The Inspirational Journey of Sister Carla

Maggiore Jacqueline Hansen

ISBN: PB: 9781589662179, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
171 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore presents in this volume the biography of her lifelong friend Carol Piette, known throughout Chile and El Salvador as Sister Carla. Drawing from the memories of those who knew her and excerpts from her letters and diaries, "...

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America

Culture Studies

Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...

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History

Victorian Popularizers of Science Designing Nature for New Audiences

Lightman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226481197, ISBN: HB: 9780226481180, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 68 halftones

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time "The Origin of Species" was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing gro...

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Ecology

Nature

Vanishing Present Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife

Waller Donald M., Rooney Thomas P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226871738, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
522 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest o...

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Literary Criticism

Vladislav Vancura The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde

Chitnis Rajendra A.

ISBN: PB: 9788024614564, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2007
226 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This is the first major analytical study in English of the work of the leading Czech Avant-garde novelist and dramatist, Vladislav Vancura, often regarded as the greatest exponent of the C...

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Contemporary Art

Venus in Exile The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226772400, University of Chicago Press, November 2002
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 halftones

In "Venus in Exile" renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art – the female subject and or...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Vocation of a Teacher Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065823, ISBN: HB: 9780226065816, University of Chicago Press, January 1991
372 pp., 23x15 cm

This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also v...

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History of Art

Visitable Past Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915

Lovell Margaretta M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226494128, University of Chicago Press, April 1989
139 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 92 halftones, 17 maps

In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such...

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