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Canyons and Ice The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith

Johnson Kaylene

ISBN: PB: 9781467509343, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
280 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 110 colour illus.

Solo travel today is anything but solitary, with the familiar glow of technology and nearly sentient gear as common companions. But for decades one especially daring traveler has set off into the wilderness with little more than a sense of adventure....

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Architecture

Chicago Makes Modern How Creative Minds Changed Society

Jacob Mary Jane, Baas Jacquelynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226389561, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
304 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 30 halftones, 72 colour illus.

Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern – from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooke...

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Philosophy

Forgiveness

Jankelevitch Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780226045658, ISBN: HB: 9780226392134, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Philosopher Vladimir Jankelevitch has only recently begun to receive his due from the English-speaking world, thanks in part to discussions of his thought by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur. His international readers have long val...

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Military

Welcome Home, Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946

Jobs Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593397450, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
276 pp., 21.5x14 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory – ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incis...

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Anthropology

Lifeworlds Essays in Existential Anthropology

Jackson Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226923659, ISBN: HB: 9780226923642, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Michael Jackson's "Lifeworlds" is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and exa...

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Political Science

Living Legislation Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Law Making

Jenkins Jeffery A., Patashnik Eric M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226396453, ISBN: HB: 9780226396446, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 16 line illus.

Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is...

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Philosophy

Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

Jullien Francois

ISBN: PB: 9780226415314, ISBN: HB: 9780226415307, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 colour illus.

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, "The Great Image Has No Form" explores the "nonobj...

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Contemporary Art

Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt The Letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski, 1948-1971

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788393381869, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, October 2012
380 pp., 19x14 cm, 12 facsimiles and drawings, 81 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. C...

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Christianity

Buddhism

Invention of Religion in Japan

Josephson Jason Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm

Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...

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Biography & Memoires

My Father's Name A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War

Jackson Lawrence P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226389493, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 45 halftones

Armed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather's old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs".My Father's Nam...

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