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Photography

Images of the West Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880

Griffith Bronwyn, Brunet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780932171542, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, August 2007
136 pp., 28.6x23.3 cm, 100 colour plates

As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...

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History of Art

Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...

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Christianity

Priests A Calling in Crisis

Greeley Andrew M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226306452, ISBN: HB: 9780226306445, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
156 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 10 tables

For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Church – and a small number of...

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Reference

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Grossman James R., Keating Ann Durkin, Reiff Janice L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226310152, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
1152 pp., 27.1x21.6 cm, 56 p. colour insert, 475 halftones, 442 maps, 10 tables

One of the great American metropolises, Chicago rises out of the prairie in the heart of the country, buffeted by winds coming off the plains and cooled by the waters of the inland sea of Lake Michigan. Chicago is a city of size and mass, the cradle...

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Women Studies

Wedding Song Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman

Goldin Farideh

ISBN: PB: 9781584654445, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2004
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state – prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin's passionate and painful account of her childhood in a poor Jewi...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Pious and Rebellious Jewish Women in Medieval Europe

Grossman Avraham

ISBN: PB: 9781584653929, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2004
351 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects of women's lives in medieval Jewish...

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Education

Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure

Goldsmith John A., Komlos John, Gold Penny Schine

ISBN: PB: 9780226301518, ISBN: HB: 9780226301501, University of Chicago Press, September 2001
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 tables

Is a career as a professor the right choice for you? If you are a graduate student, how can you clear the hurdles successfully and position yourself for academic employment? What's the best way to prepare for a job interview, and how can you maximize...

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History of Art

150 Years of American Painting, 1794-1944

Gibbs Linda Jones

ISBN: HB: 9780842523189, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, January 1998
196 pp., 31.4x23.5 cm, 73 colour plates, 18 halftones

This lavishly illustrated catalog accompanies the first exhibition from the permanent collection at Brigham Young University's Museum of Art. The book highlights seventy-three of the finest American paintings from that collection, including works by...

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Literary Criticism

One of Us The Mastery of Joseph Conrad

Galt Harpham Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226316963, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
226 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master – master mariner, story...

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Philosophy

Nihilism Before Nietzsche

Gillespie Michael Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226293486, University of Chicago Press, October 1996
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding h...

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