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Cartography

Flattening the Earth Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

Snyder John P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226767475, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 163 maps and charts, 12 portraits

As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth...

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Photography

Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography

Rugg Linda Haverty

ISBN: PB: 9780226731476, ISBN: HB: 9780226731469, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
293 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convin...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9780226468266, ISBN: HB: 9780226468259, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The influential political philosopher Leo Strauss has been credited by conservatives with the recovery of the great tradition of political philosophy stretching back to Plato. Among Strauss's most enduring legacies is a strongly negative assessment o...

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Literary Criticism

Giving Offense Essays on Censorship

Coetzee J. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111766, ISBN: HB: 9780226111742, University of Chicago Press, November 1997
297 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm

J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and cen...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226063089, ISBN: HB: 9780226063072, University of Chicago Press, November 1997
444 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 93 halftones

Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, J. C. Leyendecker and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi-Cola, the avant garde and the Famous Artists Schools, Inc. : these are some of the unexpected pairings encountered in "Artists, Advertis...

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Philosophy

Leading a Human Life Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism

Eldridge Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226203133, ISBN: HB: 9780226203126, University of Chicago Press, October 1997
307 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this provocative new study, Richard Eldridge presents a highly original and compelling account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", one of the most enduring yet enigmatic works of the twentieth century. He does so by reading the text...

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History of Art

Eskimo Artists

Himmelheber Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780912006697, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 1997
83 pp., 23.3x21.7 cm, black&white photos

Hans Himmelheber describes the cultural and artistic heritage of the Yup'ik in southwestern Alaska during the late 1930s. His work is remarkable because he emphasized drawing, carving, and painting as part of a narrative process instead of focusing o...

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Jewish Studies

People Divided Judaism in Contemporary America

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780874518481, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 1997
287 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This brilliant analysis of American Judaism in the last half of the 20th century won the 1993-94 National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary Jewry and also was named an Outstanding Book of 1993 by Choice. Jack Wertheimer examines how...

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Mammals

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals A Field Guide

Emmons Louise H., Feer François

ISBN: PB: 9780226207216, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 colour plates, 9 halftones, 195 maps, 14 line drawings

"Neotropical Rainforest Mammals", the first color-illustrated field guide to these marvelously diverse and elusive creatures, has enjoyed tremendous success since its initial publication in 1990. Ecotourists and field researchers alike have applauded...

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Philosophy

Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason Volume One: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History

Flynn Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226254685, ISBN: HB: 9780226254678, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
356 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent th...

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