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Architecture

America

Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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Education

Knowledge Most Worth Having

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065762, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
226 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Knowledge Most Worth Having" represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago – faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of kno...

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Literary Criticism

Essential Wayne Booth

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065922, University of Chicago Press, July 2006
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables

Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction", a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of...

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Law

Permissions, A Survival Guide Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property

Bielstein Susan M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226046389, University of Chicago Press, June 2006
188 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 35 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine...

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Literary Criticism

History of Art

Mieke Bal Reader

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035857, ISBN: HB: 9780226035840, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...

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Jewish Studies

Land of Two Peoples Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs

Buber Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226078021, University of Chicago Press, February 2005
342 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Theologian, philosopher, and political radical, Martin Buber (1878-1965) was actively committed to a fundamental economic and political reconstruction of society as well as the pursuit of international peace. In his voluminous writings on Arab-Jewish...

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Philosophy

Philosophy in a Time of Terror Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

Borradori Giovanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226066660, University of Chicago Press, September 2004
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate t...

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Performing Arts

Jewish Studies

Our Musicals, Ourselves A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

Bush Jones John

ISBN: PB: 9780874519044, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2004
426 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Our Musicals, Ourselves" is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many afi...

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History of Art

Aleut Art Unangam Aguqaadangin

Black Lydia

ISBN: HB: 9781578642144, University of Chicago Press, September 2003
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates

Now in a second edition, "Aleut Ar" is a landmark work that provides a comprehensive picture of the Unangas, or Aleut people, and the place of art in their lives, both past and present. Full of extraordinary color plates representing collections f...

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History of Art

Art History after Modernism

Belting Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226041858, ISBN: HB: 9780226041841, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
236 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones

"Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different direction, if it is safe to say it has taken a direction at all. So begins Hans Belting's brilliant, icon...

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