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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Sperm Whales Social Evolution in the Ocean

Whitehead Hal

ISBN: PB: 9780226895185, ISBN: HB: 9780226895178, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
456 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 41 tables, 60 halftones, 84 line illus.

Famed in story as "the great leviathans", sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty ton...

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Anthropology

Gypsy World The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead

Williams Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226899299, ISBN: HB: 9780226899282, University of Chicago Press, June 2003
115 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manus, not only do not speak of their dead, t...

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Jewish Studies

Covenant of Circumcision New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite

Wyner Mark Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9781584653073, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2003
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

According to Jewish law, the ritual practice of circumcising male infants signals the male child's entry into the covenant his forefather Abraham made with God. Circumcision, now a common medical procedure for male infants in the United States, has c...

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History of Art

Well-Fashioned Image Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850

Weaver Elissa B., Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573350, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 8 colour plates, 40 halftones

Fashion – the question of what to wear and how to wear it – is a centuries-old obsession. Beyond superficial concerns with personal appearance, the history of dress points to deep preoccupations surrounding the social order, national identity, and mo...

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Jewish Studies

In Search of American Jewish Culture

Whitfield Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781584651710, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2001
333 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In drama and in musical comedy, in popular song and in symphonic music, in movies and in literature, Jews have contributed to American culture in the 20th century to a degree out of all proportion to their numbers. But does this vast creative output...

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History of Art

Sculpture of the Czech Art Nouveau

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: HB: 9788024602356, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2001
431 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The English version of the major book from Petr Wittlich, which charts the crisis and development of Czech monumental sculpture at the turn of the 19th/20th century and explores the new de...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Women and Water Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law

Wasserfall Rahel

ISBN: PB: 9780874519600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 1999
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah – separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath...

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Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3 Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies

Woodward David, Lewis G. Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780226907284, University of Chicago Press, December 1998
500 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 24 colour plates, 267 halftones, 196 line drawings, 5 tables

Although they are often rendered in forms unfamiliar to Western eyes, maps have existed in most cultures. In this latest book of the acclaimed "History of Cartography", contributors from a broad variety of disciplines collaborate to describe and addr...

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Jewish Studies

People Divided Judaism in Contemporary America

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780874518481, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 1997
287 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This brilliant analysis of American Judaism in the last half of the 20th century won the 1993-94 National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary Jewry and also was named an Outstanding Book of 1993 by Choice. Jack Wertheimer examines how...

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Reference

Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, ca. 1540-1600

Woodward David

ISBN: HB: 9780226907277, University of Chicago Press, September 1996
206 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 335 halftones, 335 line drawings

This catalogue presents over three-hundred photographic images of watermarks found in Italian printed maps of the sixteenth century. Such watermarks are essential tools in identifying paper moulds and are part of the evidence that bibliographers use...

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