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'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': The Cult...
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Gilroy demonstrates the enormous complexity of racial politics in England today. Exploring the relationships among race, class, and nation as they have evolved over the past twenty years, he highlights racist attitudes that transcend the left-right political divide. He challenges current sociologica..
A Brief History of the Spanish Language
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Spanish is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world and a language of ever-increasing importance in the United States. In what will likely become the introduction to the history of the Spanish language, David Pharies clearly and concisely charts the evolution of Spanish from its Indo-Euro..
A Century of Juvenile Justice
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Since its inception in Illinois in 1899, the juvenile court has become a remarkable legal and social institution all over the developed world, one that plays a singular role in modern government. At its founding, the juvenile court was intended to reverse longstanding legal traditions, and place the..
A Commentary on The Complete Greek Tragedies. Aesc...
$59.31
This commentary offers a rich introduction and useful guide to the seven surviving plays attributed to Aeschylus. Though it may profitably be used with any translation of Aeschylus, the commentary is based on the acclaimed Chicago translations, The Complete Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and..
A companion to the Iliad: Based on the translation...
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A companion to the Iliad: Based on the translation by Richmond Lattimore Author: Willcock, Malcolm M Publisher: University of Chicago Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0226898547 ISBN-13: 9780226898544..
A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the La...
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The popular press dubbed him "the subway vigilante": Bernhard Goetz, who on December 22, 1984, shot four black youths on a New York subway train when one of them asked for five dollars. Goetz claimed to have fired in self-defense, out of fear that the young men were about to rob him. Author: Fletche..
A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism
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Book by Jerome J. McGann Author: McGann, Jerome J. Publisher: University of Chicago Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0226558525 ISBN-13: 9780226558523..
A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first c..
A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first c..
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work...
$33.77
Offering an ancient education for our times, Jill Frank's A Democracy of Distinction interprets Aristotle's writings in a way that reimagines the foundations, aims, and practices of politics, ancient and modern. Concerned especially with the work of making a democracy of distinction, Frank shows tha..
A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of ...
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This little-known late writing of Hobbes reveals an unexplored dimension of his famous doctrine of sovereignty. The essay was first published posthumously in 1681, and from 1840 to 1971 only a generally unreliable edition has been in print. This edition provides the first dependable and easily acces..
A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal...
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Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's Dictionary remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work contains more than 1,000 groupings of synonyms from ..
A Division of Spoils (Repr of 1975 Ed) (Raj Quarte...
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After exploiting India's divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersw..
A Free and Responsible Press: A General Report on ...
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The question of how much freedom the press should enjoy has been debated throughout American history. In 1942 an impartial commission was formed to study mass communication, evaluate the performance of the media, and make recommendations for possible regulation of the press. This book is the general..
A Gift of Madrigals and Motets (Description and An...
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Near the end of the third decade of the sixteenth century, a five-volume set of madrigal and motet partbooks was assembled in Florence and sent as a gift-or "musical embassy"-to the English court of Henry VIII. The manuscript set-minus the missing altus part-has been owned since 1935 by the Newberry..
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and O...
$188.19
Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on ..
A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture
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Surveys public sculpture in Chicago Author: Gray, Mary L. Publisher: University of Chicago Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0226033996 ISBN-13: 9780226033990..
A History of Chicago, Volume II: From Town to City...
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The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893.Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-..
A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2: From Gautama...
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In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iran..
A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. 1: 1913-195...
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Allan H. Meltzer's monumental history of the Federal Reserve System tells the story of one of America's most influential but least understood public institutions. This first volume covers the period from the Federal Reserve's founding in 1913 through the Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord of 1951, whic..
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledg...
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How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ide..
A Jest of God (Phoenix Fiction)
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A thirty-four-year-old school teacher living with her mother, Rachel Cameron feels trapped in an environment of small-town deceit and pettiness-her own and that of others. She longs for contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Finally, by confronting both love and death, Ra..
A Latin Reader for Colleges (Midway Reprint Series...
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Selections from Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, The Lives of Nepos, Phaedrus' Fables in verse, and some Caesar are carefully aimed to interest and challenge, but not overtax, the college student who is not yet ready for complicated readings in Latin. Author: Levy, H. L. L. Publisher: University of Chic..
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, a...
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A little more than seventy-five years ago, Kate L. Turabian drafted a set of guidelines to help students understand how to write, cite, and formally submit research writing. Seven editions and more than nine million copies later, the name Turabian has become synonymous with best practices in researc..
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, a...
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Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the modern age. But perhaps no name has been spoken with more respect than Turabian. The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on th..