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Political Science

Metropolitan Governance Different Paths in Contrasting Contexts: Germany and Israel

Heinelt Hubert, Razin Eran, Zimmermann Karsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593394015, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
350 pp., 22x14 cm

As urban areas have grown and sprawl has spread in recent decades, metropolitan governments around the world have begun to look beyond city borders, establishing regional partnerships to help them deal with issues of transit, resource use, and more"....

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Law

Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective

Biagioli Mario, Jaszi Peter, Woodmansee Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226907093, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 39 halftones, 3 line illus.

Rules regulating access to knowledge are no longer the exclusive province of lawyers and policymakers and instead command the attention of anthropologists, economists, literary theorists, political scientists, artists, historians, and cultural critic...

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Medieval

Europe

Memory's Library Medieval Books in Early Modern England

Summit Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226781709, ISBN: HB: 9780226781716, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
354 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 8 halftones

In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, wh...

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Asia

History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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Film Studies

Minding Movies Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking

Bordwell David, Thompson Kristin

ISBN: PB: 9780226066998, ISBN: HB: 9780226066981, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
312 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with their seminal introduction to the field – "Film Ar...

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History

Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

Bliss Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226059013, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
112 pp., 21.8x14.8 cm, 26 halftones

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help – not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, b...

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Philosophy

Music

Music in German Philosophy An Introduction

Sorgner Stefan Lorenz, Furbeth Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780226768380, ISBN: HB: 9780226768373, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth,...

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Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy Redefined

Deely John

ISBN: HB: 9781589662162, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
450 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

With "Medieval Philosophy Redefined" John Deely provides an in-depth, original history of medieval philosophy, tracing a common thread that coherently unifies and defines what he calls "the Latin Age" – which reaches unbroken from the fifth-century w...

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Biography & Memoires

Mysticism of Kindness The Lucie Christine Story

O'Brien Astrid M.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662063, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

On the surface, Lucie Christine – the pseudonym given to a nineteenth-century Frenchwoman named Mathilde Boutle – was a very ordinary upper-middle-class woman, fulfilling her daily responsibilities to her husband and children. But underneath, Lucie C...

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General

Marriage and Cohabitation

Thornton Arland, Axinn William G., Xie Yu

ISBN: PB: 9780226798677, ISBN: HB: 9780226798660, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 16 line illus.

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women...

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