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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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History of Art

Literary Criticism

Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature

Gamboni Dario

ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...

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Architecture

Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture

Siry Joseph M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226761404, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
736 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 295 halftones, 10 colour illus.

In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright's last completed project...

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Buddhism

Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Rowe Mark Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226730158, ISBN: HB: 9780226730134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 halftones, 2 line illus.

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services – a base now...

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History

Earth Sciences

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

Golinski Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780226302034, ISBN: HB: 9780226302058, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions".British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment" reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the...

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Philosophy

Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226144290, ISBN: HB: 9780226144283, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures".With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1", the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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Culture Studies

Before Porn Was Legal The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse

Heineman Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226325217, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
240 pp., 23x16 cm, 23 halftones

Struggling to survive in postWorld War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1919-2001) – a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother – turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started...

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America

Ecology

Boll Weevil Blues Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

Giesen James C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226292878, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 22x15 cm, 4 maps, 10 figures, 7 tables, 5 halftones

Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisi...

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History

Between Raphael and Galileo Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy

Marr Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226506289, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
384 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 25 halftones, 55 colour illus.

Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics. A prime example of the artisan-scholar so prevalent i...

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