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Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs

Bloomfield Victor A., El-Fakahany Esam E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226060644, ISBN: HB: 9780226060637, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 1 table

Embarking upon research as a graduate student or postdoc can be exciting and enriching – the start of a rewarding career. But the world of scientific research is also a competitive one, with grants and good jobs increasingly hard to find".The Chicago...

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Europe

Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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History of Art

Again Selected Interviews and Essays

Blair Dike

ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates

Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...

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General

Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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History of Art

Impressionist Giverny A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915

Bourguignon Katherine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171528, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2007
224 pp., 29.9x22.9 cm, 170 colour plates

Lured by the ineffable beauty represented in Claude Monet's artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transf...

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History of Art

Lee Miller A Life

Burke Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226080673, University of Chicago Press, April 2007
446 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 82 halftones

Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a...

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Europe

One Must Also Be Hungarian

Biro Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226052120, University of Chicago Press, February 2007
168 pp., 20.7x15.3 cm, 29 halftones, 1 figure

The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as "this people has already suffered for its past and its future", Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darke...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Now Don't Try to Reason with Me Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065809, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
398 pp., 23x15 cm

In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason – a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. F...

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Contemporary Art

Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226063058, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
352 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 85 halftones

Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city's aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission's domain has expanded d...

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