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Islam

General

Finding Mecca in America How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

Bilici Mucahit

ISBN: PB: 9780226049571, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 6 line illus.

The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America...

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History of Art

Quality Instinct Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

Anderson Maxwell L.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253671, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
236 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? These questions have long spawned heated conversations about objectivity, subjectivity, and qualitative judgment that span both the academic and art worlds. Acclaimed...

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Biography & Memoires

Gaining Daylight Life on Two Islands

Loewen Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781602231986, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2013
140 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 20 halftones

For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the...

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Decorative Arts

Treasuring the Gaze Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: HB: 9780226309668, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 53 halftones, 24 colour illus.

The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more convent...

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Design

Exhibitions Concept, Planning and Design

Klobe Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781933253695, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Good exhibition design promotes thought and feeling through the creation of an emotionally charged space – an environment that engulfs visitors, pulls them forward, and draws them into the story and its meaning", writes Tom Klobe in "Exhibitions". H...

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Literary Criticism

Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger

Simpson David

ISBN: HB: 9780226922355, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm

In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger – the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor – carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments abou...

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Political Science

Social Citizen Peer Networks and Political Behavior

Sinclair Betsy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922829, ISBN: HB: 9780226922812, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 tables, 20 line illus.

Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources...

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Law

General

Three and a Half Minute Transaction Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design

Gulati Mitu, Scott Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226924380, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 7 line illus.

Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu...

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Education

Leaving College Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition

Tinto Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226007571, ISBN: HB: 9780226804491, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 3 line illus.

In this 1994 classic work on student retention, Vincent Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention, Tinto demonstrates, is in a strong commi...

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Philosophy

Anger, Mercy, Revenge

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226748429, ISBN: HB: 9780226748412, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of n...

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