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Jewish Studies

Besht Magician, Mystic, and Leader

Etkes Immanuel

ISBN: PB: 9781611683080, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Founded in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement and its religious thinking have dramatically transformed modern Judaism. The figure of the Ba'al Shem Tov (known in acronym form as the BeSHT) – the purported founder of the Ha...

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Physics

Pontecorvo Affair A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics

Turchetti Simone

ISBN: HB: 9780226816647, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an exper...

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Travel

Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave

Goldhill Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226301310, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 1 map, 12 halftones

The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walke...

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Music

Duke Ellington's America

Cohen Harvey G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112640, ISBN: HB: 9780226112633, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership o...

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Hack Stories from a Chicago Cab

Samarov Dmitry

ISBN: HB: 9780226734736, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 22x14 cm, 66 halftones

Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have st...

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Finding Mars

Rozell Ned

ISBN: PB: 9781602231221, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2011
190 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 128 halftones

"Finding Mars" is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher – and inveterate wanderer – Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along t...

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When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...

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Lady Anatomist The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini

Messbarger Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226520810, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
248 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 colour plates, 20 halftones

Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment".The Lady Anatomist" tells the story of her arresti...

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Vessel of Clay The Inspirational Journey of Sister Carla

Maggiore Jacqueline Hansen

ISBN: PB: 9781589662179, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
171 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore presents in this volume the biography of her lifelong friend Carol Piette, known throughout Chile and El Salvador as Sister Carla. Drawing from the memories of those who knew her and excerpts from her letters and diaries, "...

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America

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Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility

Barker-Benfield G. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226037431, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, th...

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