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History of Art

Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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Christianity

Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Hale Williams Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...

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Genetics

In Search of Cell History The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

Harold Franklin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226174280, ISBN: HB: 9780226174143, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With "In Search of Cell History", Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial ta...

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Poetry

You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier

Harris Jana

ISBN: PB: 9781602232358, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper – Cynthia – not one / breath of me". For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the nam...

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Psychology

Hoarders Material Deviance in Modern American Culture

Herring Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226171715, ISBN: HB: 9780226171685, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing

The verb "declutter" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV pro...

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Business & Economics

Generalized Microeconomics

Hlavacek Jiri, Hlavacek Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024620244, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
208 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 71 graphs, 7 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The generalization of microeconomics enables model descriptions of economic rationality, even in fields that standard microeconomics more or less avoids, like nonprofit sectors of market e...

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General

Becoming Mead The Social Process of Academic Knowledge

Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226171401, ISBN: HB: 9780226171371, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book "Mind, Self, and Society", which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

En Guerre French Illustrators and World War I

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: PB: 9780943056425, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
144 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 140 colour plates

With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Publis...

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Ancient World

Roman in the Provinces Art on the Periphery of Empire

Hoffman Gail L.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850225, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2014
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 colour plates, 125 halftones

This beautifully illustrated volume presents new ways of thinking about the concept of "being Roman" – with a particular emphasis on the way people in the provinces and on the periphery of the empire reacted to the state of being a Roman subject. Acc...

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Jewish Studies

Becoming Israeli National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

Helman Anat

ISBN: PB: 9781611685572, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens – natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers – coped wi...

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