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Christianity

Priests A Calling in Crisis

Greeley Andrew M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226306452, ISBN: HB: 9780226306445, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
156 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 10 tables

For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Church – and a small number of...

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History of Art

Paper Museums The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

Zorach Rebecca, Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573404, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2005
168 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 113 halftones

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to...

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Christianity

Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion

Stevens-Arroyo Antonio M.

ISBN: PB: 9781589660052, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
211 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book present a multi-disciplinary study of Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba in 1998. The essays represent several disciplines: sociology, anthropology, political science, religious studies and theology. Authors agree on several major points: on...

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History of Art

Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Philosophy

Philosophy in a Time of Terror Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

Borradori Giovanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226066660, University of Chicago Press, September 2004
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate t...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Pious and Rebellious Jewish Women in Medieval Europe

Grossman Avraham

ISBN: PB: 9781584653929, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2004
351 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects of women's lives in medieval Jewish...

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History of Art

Peasants, Warriors, and Wives Popular Imagery in the Reformation

Moxey Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780226543925, University of Chicago Press, April 2004
180 pp., 22.9x21.6 cm, 58 line drawings

In "Peasants, Warriors, and Wives", Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the German Reformation that have often been ignored as a crude and inferior form of artistic production. In this richly illustrated study, Moxey argues that while they may n...

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Polonica

Europe

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...

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Philosophy

Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226143156, University of Chicago Press, June 2003
321 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Derrida's first book-length work, "The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy", was originally written as a dissertation for his diplome d'etudes superieures in 1953 and 1954. Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what...

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Philosophy

Jewish Studies

Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig

Mendes-Flohr Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781584652496, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eleven essays on the life and thought of the Jewish philosopher and theologian Franz Rosenzweig.

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