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Medieval

Reading the World Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age

Franklin-Brown Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226260686, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
424 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 21 halftones, 5 colour illus.

The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias". Variously referred to as a "speculum", "thesaurus", or "imago mundi" – the term encyclopedia was no...

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Anthropology

America

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones

"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...

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America

History

American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Freund Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226262819, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25x22 cm, 29 halftones

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these...

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Middle East

City of Soldiers A Year of Life, Death and Survival in Afghanistan

Fearon Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781908493088, Signal Books, May 2012
288 pp., 21.5x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! Behind the headlines, the strategies, the surges, what is life really like in Afghanistan? What is it like to live and work there as a civilian on state-building with its people, fighting the Taliban with flip-charts and pens,...

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Ancient World

Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

Faulkner Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300159073, Yale University Press, March 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B. C. ? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us...

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Asia

America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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Music

Europe

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Cultural Revolution in Berlin Jews in the Age of Enlightenment

Feiner Shmuel, Naimark-Goldberg Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9781851242917, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2011
104 pp., 24x16 cm, 84 colour illus.

The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticism of religious norms and discipline, institutions and ideology led to the movement known as the Enlight...

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America

Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

Fischer Claude S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226251448, ISBN: HB: 9780226251431, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
528 pp., 23x15 cm

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People". But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radical...

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America

When London was Capital of America

Flavell Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780300178135, Yale University Press, August 2011
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Geor...

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