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Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World

Subrahmanyam Sanjay

ISBN: PB: 9781584659921, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2011
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Sanjay Subrahmanyam's "Three Ways to Be Alien" draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"...

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History of Art

Pamphilj and the Arts Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome

Leone Stephanie C.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850171, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, July 2011
200 pp., 30.5x21.5 cm, 101 halftones, 15 colour illus.

In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the arts, which were harnessed as the visual expression of the family's new id...

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Surgery

Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Kellogg Katherine C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430034, ISBN: HB: 9780226430027, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
248 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 line illus.

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent obs...

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Culture Studies

Philadelphia Barrio The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation

Wherry Frederick F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226894324, ISBN: HB: 9780226894317, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 7 tables, 23 halftones, 2 line illus.

How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? Does gentrificat...

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Linguistics

Grammatical Framework Programming with Multilingual Grammars

Ranta Aarne

ISBN: PB: 9781575866260, ISBN: HB: 9781575866277, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2011
340 pp., 23x15 cm

Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This thorough introduction demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them i...

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America

Last Colonial Massacre Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition

Grandin Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780226306902, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
336 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 23 halftones

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and p...

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Fiction

Literary Criticism

Surprising Adventures of Balthazar

Orrego Vicuna Claudio

ISBN: HB: 9781589662186, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm

A parable rich in imagery and meaning, "The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar" provides readers of all ages with profound insights into the nature of authority, power, and freedom. The tale begins when a polar bear named Balthazar is captured by hun...

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Psychology

Public Health

Death with Dignity Ethical and Practical Considerations for Caregivers of the Terminally Ill

Clark Peter A.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662148, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, July 2011
200 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

End-of-life issues and questions are complex and frequently cause confusion and anxiety. In "Death with Dignity", theologian, medical ethicist, and pastoral caregiver Peter A. Clark examines numerous issues that are pertinent to patients, family memb...

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Other

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates (Second Edition)

Fortescue Michael, Jacobson Steven, Kaplan Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9781555001094, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
720 pp., 28x21.5 cm

An updated and comprehensive reference to the Aleut-Eskimo languages spoken from the northeastern tip of Siberia all the way east to Greenland, this easy-to-use volume groups related words from the modern Eskimo languages in comparative sets with the...

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General

Culture Studies

Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America

Tepper Steven J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226792873, ISBN: HB: 9780226792866, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
384 pp., 25x15 cm, 38 tables, 8 line illus.

In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art...

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