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Basic Czech I Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623344, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech. The first volume presents the basics of the Czech language by mean...

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Basic Czech II Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024625140, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech".Basic Czech" II is structured similarly, but it moves students fro...

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History

Baroque Science

Gal Ofer, Chen-Morris Raz

ISBN: PB: 9780226212982, ISBN: HB: 9780226923987, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

In "Baroque Science", Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, they study the paradoxes and anxieties that...

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America

Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Fernandez Lilia

ISBN: PB: 9780226212845, ISBN: HB: 9780226244259, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 maps, 13 tables, 18 halftones

Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s an...

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Jewish Studies

Becoming Israeli National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

Helman Anat

ISBN: PB: 9781611685572, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens – natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers – coped wi...

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Literary Criticism

Birth of Theory

Cole Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226135427, ISBN: HB: 9780226135397, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory – Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole's "The Birth of Theory" presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's d...

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Photography

Bedrooms of the Fallen

Gilbertson Ashley

ISBN: HB: 9780226066868, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
120 pp., 22.8x30.5 cm, 40 duotones

For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored. Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working...

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Psychology

Boy on the Beach Building Community through Play

Paley Vivian Gussin

ISBN: PB: 9780226150956, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
104 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming waves and conquering monsters. Enter Marianne and doll, Mother and Baby, eager to redefine Eli as a good fath...

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Architecture

Building for the Arts The Strategic Design of Cultural Facilities

Frumkin Peter, Kolendo Ana

ISBN: HB: 9780226099613, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 figures, 7 tables

Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, and centers...

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Contemporary Art

Between the Black Box and the White Cube Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art

Uroskie Andrew V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226842998, ISBN: HB: 9780226842981, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 halftones

Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, "Between the Black Box and the White Cube" travels back to the 1950s and 1960s, when th...

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