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Starring Mandela and Cosby Media and the End(s) of Apartheid

Krabill Ron

ISBN: PB: 9780226451893, ISBN: HB: 9780226451886, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa – among both Black and White South Africans – was "The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and th...

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America

Culture Studies

Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...

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Astronomy

Three Steps to the Universe From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

Garfinkle David, Garfinkle Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226283487, ISBN: HB: 9780226283463, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle thes...

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History of Art

Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity The Musee du Louvre's Collection of Greek Figurines

Jeammet Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9788484711711, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
300 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates, 19 drawings, 127 halftones

Named for the city in Greece where they were first discovered in the 1870s, Tanagra statuettes are an elegant example of ancient Greek terra-cotta sculpture from the fourth and third centuries BC. Mainly found in tombs in this city, the small statuet...

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Biography & Memoires

Royko in Love Mike's Letters to Carol

Royko Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780226730783, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
254 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 15 halftones

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder "what Royko would have said" about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he har...

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History of Art

Monet and His Muse Camille Monet in the Artist's Life

Gedo Mary Mathews

ISBN: HB: 9780226284804, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
272 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 50 colour plates, 1 line drawing, 73 halftones

For Claude Monet (1840-1926), the founder of French Impressionist painting, these words are a fitting testament to his lifelong relationship with the female muse, most notably – and most hauntingly – with his first wife, the model Camille Doncieux....

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Culture Studies

Bigfoot The Life and Times of a Legend

Buhs Joshua Blu

ISBN: PB: 9780226079806, ISBN: HB: 9780226079790, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

With "Bigfoot", Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and wooly story of America's favorite homegrown monster. He begins with nineteenth-century accounts of wildmen roaming the forests of America, treks to the Himalayas to reckon with the Abominable Snowma...

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Anthropology

Erotic Triangles Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java

Spiller Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226769592, ISBN: HB: 9780226769585, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 musical examples, 14 line drawings, 13 tables, 8 halftones

In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there – be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen – breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to th...

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Business & Economics

Law

Uncommon Sense Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism

Becker Gary S., Posner Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041025, ISBN: HB: 9780226041018, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the...

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Photography

Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Jones Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602230880, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
173 pp., 22.8x35.5 cm, 162 colour illus.

Guided by photographer Jeff Jones's sure and well-developed vision, "Arctic Sanctuary" leads the reader on a remarkable journey that few of us will ever take in real life: a trek deep into Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By turns celebrator...

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