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Cartography

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534664, ISBN: HB: 9780226534657, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 17 line drawings

Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapma...

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Culture Studies

Fools Are Everywhere The Court Jester Around the World

Otto Beatrice K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226640921, University of Chicago Press, August 2007
444 pp., 23x15 cm, 49 halftones, 66 line drawings

In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history – the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, f...

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Cultural Studies

Fashionable Food Seven Decades of Food Fads

Lovegren Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9780226494074, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
464 pp., 22.8x18 cm, 35 halftones, 7 line illus.

Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashio...

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Philosophy

Gender Studies

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

Afary Janet, Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007861, ISBN: HB: 9780226007854, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for "Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur". During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault tr...

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History of Art

Futurist Moment Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226657387, University of Chicago Press, December 2003
336 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm

Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consider...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Friedrich Hayek A Biography

Ebenstein Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226181509, University of Chicago Press, April 2003
411 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siecle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, poli...

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Linguistics

Form and Meaning in Language Volume I: Papers on Semantic Roles

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781575862866, ISBN: HB: 9781575862859, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2002
311 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The early papers collected here trace a trajectory through the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore over his long and distinguished career – reflecting his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of lan...

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General

For the Love of It Amateuring and Its Rivals

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065861, ISBN: HB: 9780226065854, University of Chicago Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23x15 cm

"For the Love of It" is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love...

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History of Art

Fragmented Devotion Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne

Netzer Nancy, Reinburg Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781892850010, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2000
150 pp., 27.6x20.1 cm, 15 colour plates, 80 black&white photographs

Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme".Fragmented Devotion" is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have i...

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Biography & Memoires

Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright A Biography

Secrest Meryle

ISBN: PB: 9780226744148, University of Chicago Press, May 1998
652 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 121 halftones

Meryle Secrest's "Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography" focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs,...

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