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Jewish Studies

Shuva The Future of the Jewish Past

Kurtzer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9781611682311, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2012
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Modern Jews tend to relate to the past through "history", which relies on empirical demonstration and rational thought, rather than through "memory", which relies on the non-rational architectures of mythology. By now "history" has surpassed "memory"...

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Poetry

Cormorant Hunter's Wife

Kane Joan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231573, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
76 pp., 23x15 cm

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Inupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural co...

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Computer Science & Internet

Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866345, ISBN: HB: 9781575866352, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2012
441 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald E. Knuth's seminal publications, such as "Selected Papers on Fun and Games" and "Selected Paper on the Design of Algorithms", have earned him a loyal following among scholars and computer scientists, and his award-winning textbooks have become...

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Anthropology

Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska New Edition

Krauss Michael, Holton Gary, Kerr Jim, Thor West Colin

ISBN: PB: 9781555001131, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
720 pp., 49x33 cm

This exquisitely illustrated and extensive map charts the peoples and languages of Alaska natives. The author, who founded the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and directed it until 2000, was responsible for assembl...

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Jewish Studies

California Jews

Kahn Ava F., Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781611682199, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The nation's thirty-first state emerged early as one of its most diverse as people immigrated to the west. California's indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by the arrival of gold miners from every corner of t...

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Music

Law

Pop Song Piracy Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

Kernfeld Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226431833, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones, 7 line illus.

The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, B...

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Ancient World

Multiple Antiquities – Multiple Modernities Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures

Klaniczay Gabor, Werner Michael

ISBN: PB: 9783593391014, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2011
450 pp., 21.2x14.2 cm

Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare Only

Knapp Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226445724, ISBN: HB: 9780226445717, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22x14 cm

Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare's timeless preeminence as an...

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Other

Philosophy

Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.

Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...

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Architecture

Terror and Wonder Architecture in a Tumultuous Age

Kamin Blair

ISBN: PB: 9780226423128, ISBN: HB: 9780226423111, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 70 halftones

For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the "Chicago Tribune" has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kam...

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