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Craft of Research Fourth Edition

Booth Wayne C., Colomb Gregory G., Williams Joseph M., Bizup Joseph, FitzGerald William T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226239736, ISBN: HB: 9780226239569, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 8 tables

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, "The Craft of Research" has helped generations of researchers at every level – from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in...

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Business & Economics

Housekeeping by Design Hotels and Labor

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226389127, ISBN: HB: 9780226389097, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings

One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized space that you don't have to clean. That doesn't, however, mean the work disappears – when we're not looking, someone else is doing it. With "Houseke...

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Christianity

America

Peaceful Conquest Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order

Burnidge Cara Lea

ISBN: HB: 9780226232317, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful...

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Literary Criticism

Object Lessons The Novel as a Theory of Reference

Bartlett Jami

ISBN: HB: 9780226369655, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

A good novel brings to life not only the nature of its characters, but also the physical presence of all of the things surrounding them, from the smallest trinkets to entire landscapes".Object Lessons" explores this phenomenon and addresses a fundame...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News The Politics of Illusion (Tenth Edition)

Bennett W. Lance

ISBN: PB: 9780226344867, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

For over thirty years, "News: The Politics of Illusion" has not simply reflected the political communication field – it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting a...

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Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking

Borel Brooke

ISBN: PB: 9780226290935, ISBN: HB: 9780226290768, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 halftones, 2 line drawings

"A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation 'funded a study on Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole'. That is incorrect. The event took place during off-duty hours without NSF permission and did not involve taxpayer...

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Contemporary Art

In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum

Bunzl Matti

ISBN: PB: 9780226418124, ISBN: HB: 9780226173818, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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Photography

Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

Behdad Ali

ISBN: PB: 9780226356402, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and fa...

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Buddhism

Birth of Insight Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

Braun Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226418575, ISBN: HB: 9780226000800, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often...

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