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Political Science

Going to War in Iraq When Citizens and the Press Matter

Feldman Stanley, Huddy Leonie, Marcus George E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226304236, ISBN: HB: 9780226304069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 figures, 12 tables

How was the Bush administration able to convince both Congress and the American public to support the plan to go to war against Iraq in spite of poorly supported claims about the danger Saddam Hussein posed? Conventional wisdom holds that, because ne...

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Political Science

Free Expression and Democracy in America A History

Feldman Stephen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226333069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorsed the silencing of free expression. If the connection between democracy and the freedom of speech is su...

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Anthropology

Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

Farrer James, Field Andrew David

ISBN: PB: 9780226262888, ISBN: HB: 9780226262741, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city's image as a global metropolis. In "Shanghai Nightscapes", sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew D...

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Contemporary Art

Rooted in Soil

Fatemi Laura, Fatemi Farrah, Heneghan Liam

ISBN: PB: 9780978907495, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2015
28 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 16 colour plates

Eco and environmental art can highlight the primal importance of natural resources for human life and the need to be responsible environmental stewards. This catalog for a recent exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum explores one particularly undervalu...

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Christianity

Political Science

Politics of Religious Freedom

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred, Shakman Hurd Elizabeth, Mahmood Saba, Danchin Peter G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226248509, ISBN: HB: 9780226248479, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have r...

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Asia

History of Art

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

Foxwell Chelsea

ISBN: HB: 9780226110806, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
296 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 34 colour plates, 70 halftones

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a pe...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Gerulata Lamps A Survey of Roman Lamps in Pannonia

Frecer Robert

ISBN: PB: 9788024626789, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! For the ancient Romans, lamps were more than just a way to be able to see in the dark – they were mythical muses, witnesses to secrets, and instruments of the supernatural. Far more famili...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Individual in History Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz

Freeze Chaeran Y., Fuks Fried Sylvia, Sheppard Eugene R.

ISBN: HB: 9781611687323, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2015
580 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jehuda Reinharz, born in Haifa in 1944, spent his childhood in Israel and his adolescence in Germany, and moved with his family to the United States when he was seventeen. These three diverse geographies and the experiences they engendered shaped his...

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Cookbooks

Big Jones Cookbook Recipes for Savoring the Heritage of Regional Southern Cooking

Fehribach Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226205724, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings

You expect to hear about restaurant kitchens in Charleston, New Orleans, or Memphis perfecting plates of the finest southern cuisine – from hearty red beans and rice to stewed okra to crispy fried chicken. But who would guess that one of the most inn...

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History of Art

Public in the Picture Involving the Beholder in Antique, Islamic, Byzantine and Western Medieval and Renaissance Art

Fricke Beate, Krass Urte

ISBN: HB: 9783037344781, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 75 halftones

The act of including bystanders within the scene of an artwork has marked an important shift in the ways artists addressed the beholder, as well as a significant transformation of the relationship between images and their viewership. In such works, t...

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