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Foltmann Niels Bo, Teich Geertinger Axel, Hauge Peter, Krabbe Niels, Moe Bjarke, Bruunshuus Petersen Elly

ISBN: HB: 9788763544054, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2017
616 pp., 23.5x17.2 cm, 300 musical diagrams

"The Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works" is the first ever thematic-bibliographic inventory of composer Carl Nielsen's compositions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes incipits (that is, the first couple of bars) for unam...

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America

General

Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Reid Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780226409214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and ma...

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General

Cities as Multiple Landscapes Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans

Antenhofer Christina, Bischof Gunter, Dupont Robert L., Leitner Ulrich

ISBN: PB: 9783593506470, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
529 pp., 20.9x14 cm, 60 halftones, 15 colour plates, 20 line drawings, 4 maps

Cities are composed of a combination of urban and rural spaces, buildings and boundaries, and human bodies engaged in political, social, and cultural discourses. Together, these combine to create what the contributors to this volume call multiple lan...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Boystown Sex and Community in Chicago

Orne Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226413396, ISBN: HB: 9780226413259, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing

From neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this tr...

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Business & Economics

Law

Issues in Law and Economics

Winter Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780226249629, ISBN: HB: 9780226249599, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With "Issues in Law and Eco...

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Christianity

Three Christian Martyrdoms from Early Islamic Palestine Passion of Peter of Capitolias, Passion of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba, Passion of Romanos the Neo-Martyr

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529884, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A distinctive feature of Christian culture in early Islamic Syria and Palestine was a renewed interest in literature on martyrs, which represented a potential reaction among some Christian communities to the rise of Islam in the region. The adaption...

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Technology & Engineering

Aerial Crossroads of America St. Louis's Lambert Airport

Rust Daniel L.

ISBN: HB: 9781883982898, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, February 2017
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 178 halftones

The history of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is the story of American aviation. Everything that has taken place on the airport's footprint – from Lindbergh to American Airlines, jet airliners to space travel – constitutes a microcosm of the...

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Japanese

Jacy An Implemented Grammar of Japanese

Siegel Melanie, Bender Emily M., Bond Francis

ISBN: PB: 9781684000180, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book describes the fundamentals of Jacy, an implementation of a Japanese head-driven phrase structure grammar with many useful linguistic implications. Jacy presents sound information about the Japanese language (syntax, semantics, and pragmatic...

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Hinduism

Hindu Tantric World An Overview

Padoux Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780226424095, ISBN: HB: 9780226423937, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Tantra occupies a unique position in Western understandings of Hindu spirituality. Its carnal dimension has made its name instantly recognizable, but this popular fascination with sex has obscured its philosophical depth and ritual practices, to say...

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Music

Four Last Songs Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten

Hutcheon Linda, Hutcheon Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226420684, ISBN: HB: 9780226255590, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In "Four Last Songs", Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late wo...

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