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Contemporary Art

Europe

Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

Vickery Jonathen P., Manus Mechtild

ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

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Ecology

America

Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

Kelly Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781602232990, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 1 map

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state's dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildl...

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America

American Guides The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

Griswold Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226357836, ISBN: HB: 9780226357669, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate – and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a re...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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America

American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187328, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstruc...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Allied-Axis: The Photo Journal of the Second World War S35 SOMUA in French and German Service

Doyle David

ISBN: PB: 9781944367305, Casemate, The Ampersand Group, June 2016
96 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 illus.

The latest in this long-running series showcases the S35 SOMUA tanks in French and German Service; the British Sexton Self Propelled Gun; the German Horch 108 Heavy Car; the Char B1s in French and German Service, and the U.S. Quick-Way Crane and Cole...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

American Soldier Collection 1914-1918

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815102919, Casemate, OREP, April 2016
32 pp., 24x17 cm

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photographs, letters, stories and old uniforms kept in attics are all that is left. Thanks to a collection of...

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Law

America

American Supreme Court Sixth Edition

McCloskey Robert G., Levinson Sanford

ISBN: PB: 9780226296890, ISBN: HB: 9780226296753, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. As in prior editions, McCloskey's orig...

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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

Telo Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226309699, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn i...

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