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Contemporary Art

Blast Counterblast

Elms Anthony, Reinke Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781926627175, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, February 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 7 line illus.

"Blast Counterblast" is a multifaceted, fascinating examination of the way intellectuals interact – through influence, through argumentation, and through criticism. Looking at both Wyndham Lewis's modernist publication "BLAST" and Marshall McLuhan's...

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Philosophy

Behind Closed Doors IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226770871, ISBN: HB: 9780226770864, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 13 halftones, 1 line illus.

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as...

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General

Urban Spaces after Socialism Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Darieva Tsypylma, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593393841, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
325 pp., 22x14 cm, 40 halftones

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...

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Poetry

Cormorant Hunter's Wife

Kane Joan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231573, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
76 pp., 23x15 cm

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Inupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural co...

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Jewish Studies

Through the Sands of Time A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Cohen Judah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683097, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
332 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1796, the Jews of St. Thomas founded the first Jewish congregation on this Caribbean island. By 1803, new arrivals from England, France, and the neighboring islands of St. Eustatius and Curacao increased the original number from a handful of congr...

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Media Studies

Drop Dead Gorgeous Representations of Corpses in American TV Shows

Weber Tina

ISBN: PB: 9783593395074, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
267 pp., 22x14 cm, 60 colour illus.

Previously only ever seen, briefly, at the scene of their demise, corpses have become a central part of many popular American television shows in the twenty-first century. From "CSI" to "Six Feet Under", extended portrayals of dead bodies – in the mo...

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Film Studies

Conjugations Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema

Gopal Sangita

ISBN: PB: 9780226304267, ISBN: HB: 9780226304250, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed radica...

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Children's Books

Raven and River

White Carlstrom Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602231504, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
32 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.

"Raven and River" leads young readers on a fantastical journey with a raven across the icy Alaska landscape on the verge of spring. Along the way, the raven's sonorous cry wakes a cast of sleeping woodland creatures, including a bear, a beaver, a har...

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Political Science

Difference and Democracy Exploring Potentials in Europe and Beyond

Raube Kolja, Sattler Annika

ISBN: PB: 9783593395029, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
380 pp., 22x14 cm, 5 halftones, 5 colour illus.

As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences among citizens within European democracy crucial. The contributors to "Difference and Democracy" take a novel interdisciplinary approach to this important dimension of s...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Besht Magician, Mystic, and Leader

Etkes Immanuel

ISBN: PB: 9781611683080, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Founded in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement and its religious thinking have dramatically transformed modern Judaism. The figure of the Ba'al Shem Tov (known in acronym form as the BeSHT) – the purported founder of the Ha...

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