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Linguistics

Benthem Johan

ISBN: PB: 9781575865980, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Modal Logic for Open Minds", Johan van Benthem provides an up-to-date introduction to the field of modal logic, outlining its major ideas and exploring the numerous ways in which various academic fields have adopted it. Van Benthem begins with th...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Mark Twain God's Fool

Hill Hamlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226336473, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm

After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain's last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. Contrary to the myth perpetrated...

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Culture Studies

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe Between Market and Laboratory

Klein Ursula, Spary E. C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439686, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables, 21 halftones

It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe", the labor...

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Women Studies

History of Art

Moved by Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752884, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
320 pp., 24.9x17.5 cm, 63 halftones

In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual devianc...

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History of Art

Mystic Masque Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958

Schloesser Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781892850140, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2008
600 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 200 colour and halftone plates

In the fifty years since Georges Rouault's death, his paintings have fallen from the heights of popularity in the 1940s and 50s to the depths of neglect in recent years. The publication of "Mystic Masque", which accompanies an exhibition of the same...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story

Vittorio Segre Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...

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Cartography

Maps Finding Our Place in the World

Akerman James R., Karrow Robert W. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010755, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
336 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 198 colour plates

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever considered in one volume: maps from different time periods...

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General

Mathematical Models of Social Evolution A Guide for the Perplexed

McElreath Richard, Boyd Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226558271, ISBN: HB: 9780226558264, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 55 line drawings, 99 tables, 41 boxes

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavio...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Models and Prototypes

Manchanda Catharina

ISBN: PB: 9780936316192, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, January 2007
64 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 61 colour plates

"Models and Prototypes" is the first exhibition in the Focus series, a collection-based series of publications and exhibitions intended to examine significant works from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum's collection within the context of contempora...

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Contemporary Art

Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Saltzman Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226734088, ISBN: HB: 9780226734071, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
128 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 23 halftones

In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first to...

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