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Christianity

Jewish Studies

Bountiful Harvest Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown

Skinner Andrew C., Davis D. Morgan, Griffin Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780842528047, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2012
482 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 figures, 1 colour illus.

Over the course of his forty-year career, S. Kent Brown, professor of religious studies, has taught and inspired thousands of students at Brigham Young University and has produced over one hundred publications and several films in the fields of early...

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Architecture

American Palace Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House

Bagnall David

ISBN: HB: 9780615478449, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
120 pp., 30x23.9 cm, 86 colour illus.

"An American Palace: Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House", explores the rich and varied history of one of Chicago's grandest Gilded Age residences. Commissioned by Chicago banker Samuel M. Nickerson in 1879, the house was designed by the architectura...

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Literary Criticism

Political Science

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Rose Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780226725789, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
256 pp., 22x14 cm, 4 halftones

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

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History

Steam-Powered Knowledge William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860

Fyfe Aileen

ISBN: HB: 9780226276519, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel – Gutenb...

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Contemporary Art

Precarious Worlds Contemporary Art from Germany

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316345, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2012
72 pp., 33x24 cm, 20 colour illus.

Taking as its impetus a group of important new acquisitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, "Precarious Worlds" explores thematic connections between some of the most influential artists working in Germany today. Works by Franz Ackermann, Cosi...

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America

Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Zakim Michael, Kornblith Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451107, ISBN: HB: 9780226451091, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 4 line illus.

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, "Capitalism Takes Comma...

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Business & Economics

Corporate Policy and Governance How Organizations Self-Organize

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593395456, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
356 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 colour illus.

In "Corporate Policy and Governance", Fredmund Malik offers insights into his cybernetic toolkit along with instructions for its use. He argues that businesses and other societal institutions can function "autodynamically" – in much the same fashion...

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Business & Economics

Uncluttered Management Thinking 46 Concepts for Masterful Management

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593393650, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
184 pp., 22x14 cm

Management expert Fredmund Malik examines the pitfalls of unclear language in "Uncluttered Management Thinking". The use of carelessly defined terms can do a lot of damage, Malik notes, leading to bad, even risky management decisions and actions. Del...

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Europe

Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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General

Living Faith Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

Crawford Sullivan Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226781617, ISBN: HB: 9780226781600, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare...

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