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America

Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat

Johnson Albin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...

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Literary Criticism

Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures

Johnson Claudia L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155036, ISBN: HB: 9780226402031, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 halftones

Jane Austen completed only six novels, but enduring passion for the author and her works has driven fans to read these books repeatedly, in book clubs or solo, while also inspiring countless film adaptations, sequels, and even spoofs involving zombie...

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Education

In Defense of Disciplines Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University

Jacobs Jerry A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226069326, ISBN: HB: 9780226069296, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 17 tables

Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In "Defense of Disciplines" presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument sur...

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Law

Toward a Just World The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice

Jones Dorothy V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102368, ISBN: HB: 9780226409481, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"'Toward a Just World' is an insightful and thoughtful history. The first half of the twentieth century and the heroic efforts of those who sought international justice during that time will be much better understood and appreciated thanks to this fa...

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Performing Arts

Bigger, Brighter, Louder 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics

Jones Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226059266, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

The first known "Chicago Tribune" theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements – one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load...

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Children's Books

Deep in Alaska

Johnson Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781602232150, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2013
42 pp., 22.9x22.9 cm, 42 colour illus.

On a wintry white day, a small boy and a red sled step out for an adventure. As they slip through the snowy woods, their imagined journey takes place against real black-and-white photos of Eagle River, Alaska. Told entirely in haiku, this gentle book...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Blessing Same-Sex Unions The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102535, ISBN: HB: 9780226410333, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by "Modern Brid...

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America

Planning the Home Front Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run

Jo Peterson Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226025421, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 19 halftones

Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a "date which will live in infamy"; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of...

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Dictionaries

Reference

Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary (Second Edition) Volumes 1 and 2

Jacobson Steven A.

ISBN: PB: 9781555001155, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
1248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialec...

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Anthropology

Birds

Global Pigeon

Jerolmack Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226002088, ISBN: HB: 9780226001890, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones, 10 colour illus.

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance – if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also...

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