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Technical Image A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery

Bredekamp Horst, Dunkel Vera, Schneider Birgit

ISBN: HB: 9780226258843, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 93 colour plates, 92 halftones

In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody – both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue betwe...

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Education

Teaching Artist Handbook Volume 1: Tools, Techniques, and Ideas to Help Any Artist Teach

Jaffe Nick, Barniskis Becca, Hackett Cox Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226256887, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm

The creation of art is deeply personal yet remains strongly rooted within the collaborative meeting of teacher and student. Over centuries, techniques and encouragement have been passed along from experienced mentors to budding novices. Those who can...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 28

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226208299, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in Volume 28 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the research by NBER research associates who study taxation and government spending programs. The first paper explores whether closely held firms are used a...

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Fiction

Tunnel of Love A Novel

De Vries Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226173474, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
256 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm

Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia – the school of John Updike and Cheever – this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of...

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Music

Culture Studies

Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

Weisbard Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...

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General

Philosophy

Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection

Angerer Marie-Luise, Bosel Bernd, Ott Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...

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Poetry

To Forget Venice

Boyers Peg

ISBN: PB: 9780226181264, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"To Forget Venice" is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is b...

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Fiction

Time for Frankie Coolin A Novel

Granger Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780226202648, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Known as much for his journalistic reporting as for the fiction he wrote under a variety of pen names, Bill Granger combined his divergent talents in his powerful novel "Time for Frankie Coolin". With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the...

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Literary Criticism

Trance-Migrations Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis

Siegel Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780226185323, ISBN: HB: 9780226185293, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out...

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General

Tamil Brahmans The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

Fuller C. J., Narasimhan Haripriya

ISBN: PB: 9780226152745, ISBN: HB: 9780226152608, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 tables

A cruise along the streets of Chennai – or Silicon Valley – filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic...

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