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Music

Virtual Haydn Paradox of a Twenty-First Century Keyboardist

Beghin Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226156774, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates, 23 halftones, 69 line drawings, 8 tables

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days was...

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Culture Studies

Rereading the Machine in the Garden Nature and Technology in American Culture

Erbacher Eric C., Maruo-Schroder Nicole, Sedlmeier Florian

ISBN: PB: 9783593501918, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
246 pp., 21x13.9 cm

This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture...

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Political Science

Positive Case for Negative Campaigning

Mattes Kyle, Redlawsk David P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226202167, ISBN: HB: 9780226202020, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 45 tables

Turn on the television or sign in to social media during election season and chances are you'll see plenty of negative campaigning. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that Americans hate negativity in political advertising, and some have even...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 21

Nam Seungho, Ko Heejeong, Jun Jongho

ISBN: PB: 9781575866543, ISBN: HB: 9781575866536, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
500 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the twenty-first Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at Se...

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Film Studies

Off-Screen Cinema Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde

Cabanas Kaira Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226174594, ISBN: HB: 9780226174457, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones

One of the most important avant-garde movements in postwar Paris was Lettrism, which built an interest in the relations between writing and image in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge between...

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General

Political Science

How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Medea

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203454, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's "Medea" has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their childre...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 22

Giriko Mikio, Nagaya Naonori, Takemura Akiko, Vance Timothy J.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867519, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

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America

General

Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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Literary Criticism

Asia

Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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