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Eloquent Science A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker and Scientist

Schultz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781878220912, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2009
448 pp., 23x17.8 cm, 5 halftones, 20 line drawings, 10 tables

"Eloquent Science" evolved from a workshop aimed at offering atmospheric science students formal guidance in communications, tailored for their eventual scientific careers. Drawing on advice from over twenty books and hundreds of other sources, this...

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Jewish Studies

Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation

Washton Long Rose-Carol, Baigell Matthew, Heyd Milly

ISBN: HB: 9781584657958, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2009
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. For conservative groups this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influenc...

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Gender Studies

Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226043548, ISBN: HB: 9780226043524, University of Chicago Press, December 2009
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...

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History of Art

Art-Nouveau Prague

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024613468, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2009
135 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1991, Prague has become one of Europe's – and the world's – most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to th...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226121857, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
232 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 120 line illus.

Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. T...

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Greek & Latin

Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

Danker Frederick William

ISBN: HB: 9780226136158, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing

Frederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of New Testament Greek, is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of Walter Bauer's "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature". With more than a quarter of a...

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Contemporary Art

Heartland

Esche Charles, Niemann Kerstin, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573473, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, November 2009
176 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 90 colour plates

Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Nether...

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Earth Sciences

Gems and Gemstones Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World

Grande Lance, Augustyn Allison

ISBN: HB: 9780226305110, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
352 pp., 25.9x22.1 cm, 290 colour plates, 7 line drawings, 5 tables

Gems are objects of wealth, icons of beauty, and emblems of the very best of everything. They are kept as signs of prestige or power. Given as tokens of love and affection, they also come in a kaleidoscopic array of hues and can be either mineral or...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Best of Times, Worst of Times Memoirs of a Political Education

Laqueur Walter

ISBN: HB: 9781584657989, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2009
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses o...

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Contemporary Art

What Is Contemporary Art?

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226764313, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 75 halftones

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an hist...

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