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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Gay Shame

Halperin David M., Traub Valerie

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780226314389, University of Chicago Press, January 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, "gay pride" has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political force behind the emergence of the field of lesbian and gay studies. But has something been lost, forgotten, or buried beneath the...

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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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Nature

Amazing Nature

Great Plains America's Lingering Wild

Forsberg Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226257259, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
256 pp., 27.9x31 cm, 150 colour illus.

The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endanger...

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Gender Studies

Jewish Studies

Gender and American Jews Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life

Hartman Harriet, Hartman Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781584657569, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2009
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Gender and American Jews", Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman interpret the results of the two most recent National Jewish Population Surveys. Building on their critical work in "Gender Equality and American Jews" (1996), and drawing on relevant s...

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History of Art

Giinaquq Like a Face Suqpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago

Haakanson Sven D. Jr., Steffian Amy F.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230491, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2009
200 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 240 colour plates

Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been...

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Decorative Arts

Jewish Studies

Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions

Zimiles Murray

ISBN: HB: 9781584656371, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2007
196 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Based on more than 20 years of original research in Europe, Israel, and the United States by artist Murray Zimiles, and accompanied by an essay by distinguished Judaica scholar Vivian B.Mann, this book is the first fully developed study of the secula...

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Linguistics

Gesture and Thought

McNeill David

ISBN: PB: 9780226514635, ISBN: HB: 9780226514628, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 92 figures, 13 tables

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? Davi...

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Contemporary Art

GONE Site-Specific Works by Dorothy Cross

Lydenberg Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781892850096, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, April 2005
120 pp., 25.6x20.7 cm, 123 colour plates, 3 halftones

Over the past few decades, site-specific art has evolved into an international phenomenon, drawing viewers to installations in familiar public arenas as well as remote and unusual places. Irish artist Dorothy Cross has emerged as one of the form's mo...

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Anthropology

Gypsy World The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead

Williams Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226899299, ISBN: HB: 9780226899282, University of Chicago Press, June 2003
115 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manus, not only do not speak of their dead, t...

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Photography

Get the Picture A Personal History of Photojournalism

Morris John G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539140, University of Chicago Press, June 2002
351 pp., 23.6x15.4 cm, 112 halftones

How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos to scrap and which to feature on the front page? Find out in "Get the Picture", a personal history o...

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