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All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in Americaby Suzanna Danuta WaltersISBN 0226872327 (0-226-87232-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Anatomy of Love: The Tristan of Gottfried Von Strassburgby William Thomas Hobdell JacksonISBN 0231035047 (0-231-03504-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Aristotleby John H. RandallISBN 0231023596 (0-231-02359-6)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instructionby Rw TylerISBN 0226820319 (0-226-82031-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Omanby Unni WikanISBN 0226896838 (0-226-89683-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Berlioz and the Romantic Centuryby Jacques BarzunISBN 0231031351 (0-231-03135-1)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media Worldby Joseph TurowISBN 0226817504 (0-226-81750-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting Worldby Harrison C. White, Cynthia A. WhiteISBN 0226894878 (0-226-89487-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Changing Face of Inequalityby Olivier ZunzISBN 0226994570 (0-226-99457-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920by Olivier ZunzISBN 0226994589 (0-226-99458-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Commentary on St.paul's Epistle to Galatiansby Martin Luther, P. S. WatsonISBN 0227674375 (0-227-67437-5)
Hardcover, James Clarke
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A Companion to the Iliad: Based on the Translation by Richmond Lattimoreby Homer, Malcolm M. WillcockISBN 0226898547 (0-226-89854-7)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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A Companion to the Iliad: Based on the Translation by Richmond Lattimoreby Malcolm M. WillcockISBN 0226898555 (0-226-89855-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutionsby William J. WilsonISBN 0226901297 (0-226-90129-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"Wilson has written a profound and provocative book that is destined to become a classic in the field. He has articulated the issues with which future researchers will have to deal. Truly, he has made a contribution to social science."--Wilson Record, American Journal of Sociology
"The intellectual strength of this book lies in his capacity to integrate disparate findings from historical studies, social theory and research on contemporary trends into a complex and original synthesis that challenges widespread assumptions about the cause of black disadvantage and the way to remove it."--Paul Starr, New York Times Book Review
This is a short but important book. . . . Wilson presents a cogent and convincing interpretation of how the changing political and economic structure of the United States profoundly affected the position of black Americans."--Pierre van den Berghe, Sociology and Social Research
"This publication is easily one of the most erudite and sober diagnoses of the American black situation. Students of race relations and anybody in a policy-making position cannot afford to bypass this study."--Ernest Manheim, SociologyMore editions of The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions:
Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths: An Essay on the Constitutive Imaginationby Paul VeyneISBN 0226854345 (0-226-85434-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Dinghy Buildingby Richard Creagh-OsborneISBN 0229115748 (0-229-11574-8)
Hardcover, Adlard Coles
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The Disconnectedby Penn KimballISBN 0231036965 (0-231-03696-5)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central Indiaby Lawrence A. BabbISBN 0231038828 (0-231-03882-8)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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England and the Crusades, 1095-1588by Christopher TyermanISBN 0226820130 (0-226-82013-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Evil Eyeby Clarence MaloneyISBN 0231040067 (0-231-04006-7)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New Yorkby Patricia U. BonomiISBN 0231035098 (0-231-03509-8)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Feminist Papersby Alice S. RossiISBN 0231037953 (0-231-03795-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture 1890-1920by Abigail A. Van SlyckISBN 0226850323 (0-226-85032-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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French Revolution from 1793-1799by Georges LefebvreISBN 023102519X (0-231-02519-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Livesby Marianna TorgovnickISBN 0226808327 (0-226-80832-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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History of Portugal: From Lusitania to Empireby Antonio H. MarquesISBN 0231031599 (0-231-03159-9)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Lifeby William L. Van DeburgISBN 0226847195 (0-226-84719-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Horror of Lifeby Roger WilliamsISBN 0226899195 (0-226-89919-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomyby Libbie HymanISBN 0226870111 (0-226-87011-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920by Martha VicinusISBN 0226855686 (0-226-85568-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"Feminist insight combines with vast research to produce a dramatic narrative. Independent Women chronicles the energetic lives and imaginative communal structures invented by women who 'pioneered new occupations, new living conditions, and new public roles.'"Lee R. Edwards, Ms.
"Vicinus is to be congratulated for her brave and unflinching portraits of twisted spinsters as well as stolid saints. That she stretches her net up into the '20s and covers the women's suffrage momement is a brilliant stroke, for one may see clearly how it was possible for women to mount such an enormous and successful political campaign."Jane Marcus, Chicago Tribune Book World
"Vicinus' beautifully written book abounds in rich historical detail and in subtle psychological insights in the character of its protagonists. The author understands the complexities of the interplay between economic and social conditions, cultural values, and the aims and aspirations of individual personalities who act in history. . . . A superb achievement."Gerda Lerner, Reviews in American History
"Martha Vicinus has with intelligence and energy paved and landscaped the road on which scholars and students of activist women all travel for many years."Blanche Wiesen Cook, Women's Review of Books
"Independent Women can be read by anyone with an interest in women's history. But for all contemporary women, unconsciously enjoying privileges and freedoms once bought so dearly, this book should be required reading."Catharine E. Boyd, HistoryMore editions of Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920:
Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928by Martha VicinusISBN 0226855643 (0-226-85564-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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An Introduction to Chinese Civilizationby John Thomas MeskillISBN 0231036493 (0-231-03649-3)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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The Invention of Cultureby Roy WagnerISBN 0226869342 (0-226-86934-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Jane Austenby Tony Tanner, Marilyn Gaull, John WiltshireISBN 0230008240 (0-230-00824-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Kafka Goes to the Moviesby Hanns ZischlerISBN 0226986713 (0-226-98671-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Land Filled With Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahariby Edwin N. WilmsenISBN 0226900150 (0-226-90015-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Law In Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, And Statutesby Mark D. WestISBN 0226894037 (0-226-89403-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Compiling case studies based on seven fascinating themeskaraoke-based noise complaints, sumo wrestling, love hotels, post-Kobe earthquake condominium reconstruction, lost-and-found outcomes, working hours, and debt-induced suicideLaw in Everyday Japan offers a vibrant portrait of the way law intermingles with social norms, historically ingrained ideas, and cultural mores in Japan. Each example is informed by extensive fieldwork. West interviews all of the participants-from judges and lawyers to defendants, plaintiffs, and their families-to uncover an everyday Japan where law matters, albeit in very surprising ways.More editions of Law In Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, And Statutes:
Louis Sullivan: His Life and Workby Robert TwomblyISBN 0226820068 (0-226-82006-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Madame Roland and the Age of Revolution.by Gita MayISBN 0231033796 (0-231-03379-6)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Ageby John Herman RandallISBN 0231041438 (0-231-04143-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Maps Are Territories : Science Is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibitsby David Turnbull, Helen WatsonISBN 0226817059 (0-226-81705-9)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Artby Otto WagnerISBN 0226869393 (0-226-86939-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Cultureby Ruth R. WisseISBN 0226903184 (0-226-90318-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Othersby Gary TomlinsonISBN 0226807924 (0-226-80792-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiographyissues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion.
"A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Musicthat music can promote spiritual well-beingfrom the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."Kyle Gann, Village Voice
"An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."Peter Burke, NOTES
"Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English LiteratureMore editions of Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others:
The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficientby Donald A. WittmanISBN 0226904237 (0-226-90423-7)
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New Columbia Encyclopediaby Columbia University, William Harris, Judith S. LeveyISBN 0231035721 (0-231-03572-1)
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New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975by William L. Van DeburgISBN 0226847152 (0-226-84715-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journalismby Edward BlissISBN 0231044038 (0-231-04403-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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On the Origin of Phylaby James W. ValentineISBN 0226845494 (0-226-84549-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Ontological Relativity: And Other Essaysby W.V. QuineISBN 0231033079 (0-231-03307-9)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Patrick White: Lettersby David MarrISBN 0226895033 (0-226-89503-3)
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Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Centuryby Andrew WieseISBN 0226896412 (0-226-89641-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Prisonsby Michael Tonry, Joan PetersiliaISBN 0226808491 (0-226-80849-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860by Michael ZakimISBN 0226977951 (0-226-97795-1)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Red Man's America: A History of Indians in the United Statesby Ruth Murray UnderhillISBN 0226841650 (0-226-84165-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The material Professor Underhill has gathered from the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and history, together with that drawn from her own experience in the United States Indian Service, produces a fascinating narrative. Red Man's America is an important contribution to our heritage of Indian life and lore.
"A work for which both sociologist and historian will be forever grateful. The author has combined a long period of study with actual field work in the service of the Indian to produce a work that gives a brief, but well written and accurate, sketch of the origins, backgrounds, and customs of the various North American tribes. . . . There is no other modern single volume that contains as much information on the subject."E.R. Vollmar, The Historical Bulletin
"Liveliness in style and illustration, together with perspicacity in content, makes this book a useful introduction to the civilization of the original inhabitants of the land."Pacific Historical ReviewMore editions of Red Man's America: A History of Indians in the United States:
Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexicoby R. M. UnderhillISBN 0226841677 (0-226-84167-7)
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Religion in Japanese Historyby J. M. KitagawaISBN 0231028385 (0-231-02838-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Religion, Spirituality and Thought of Traditional Africaby Dominique ZahanISBN 0226977781 (0-226-97778-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynchingby Jacquelyn Dowd HallISBN 0231040407 (0-231-04040-7)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Revolt Against Chivalry is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.
The book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to militant antiracism and provides a detailed description of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which served through the 1930s as the chief expression of antilynching sentiment in the white South.
Revolt Against Chivalry is also a biography of Ames herself: it shows how Ames connected women's opposition to violence with their search for influence and self-definition, thereby leading a revolt against chivalry which was part of both sexual and racial emancipation.
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The Rites of Passageby Arnold Van GennepISBN 0226848493 (0-226-84849-3)
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Roman Erotic Elegy: Love, Poetry, and the Westby Paul VeyneISBN 0226854329 (0-226-85432-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Michael HanlonISBN 0230008909 (0-230-00890-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracyby Robert H. WiebeISBN 0226895637 (0-226-89563-7)
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American democracy arrived abruptly in the 19th century; it changed just as dramatically early in the 20th. Hence, Self-Rule divides the history of American democracy into two halves: a 19th century half covering the 1820s to the present, and a 20th century half, with a major transition from the 1890s to the 1920s between them. As Wiebe explains why the original democracy of the early 19th century represented a sharp break from the past, he recreates in vivid detail the way European visitors contrasted the radical character of American democracy with their own societies. He then discusses the operation of various 19th century democratic publics, including a nationwide public, the People. Finally, he places democracy's white fraternal world of equals in a larger environment where other Americans who differed by class, race, and gender, developed their own relations to democracy.
Wiebe then picks up the history of democracy in the 1920s and carries it to the present. Individualism, once integrated with collective self-governance in the 19th century, becomes the driving force behind 20th century democracy. During those same years, other ways of defining good government and sound public policy shunt majoritarian practices to one side. Late in the 20th century, these two great themes in the history of American democracyindividualism and majoritarianismturn on one another in modern democracy's war on itself.
Finally, Self-Rule assesses the polarized state of contemporary American democracy. Putting the judgments of sixty-odd commentators from Kevin Phillips and E.J. Dionne to Robert Bellah and Benjamin Barber to the test of history, Wiebe offers his own suggestions on the meaning and direction of today's democracy. This sweeping work explains how the history of American democracy has brought us here and how that same history invites us to create a different future.More editions of Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy:
Shapes, Space, and Symmetryby Alan HoldenISBN 0231035497 (0-231-03549-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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A Soviet Hereticby Evgenii Ivanovich ZamiatinISBN 0226978656 (0-226-97865-6)
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The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of Indiaby Martine Van Wrkens, Catherine TihanyiISBN 0226850862 (0-226-85086-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971by Art Institute of Chicago, David Travis, Keith F. Davis, Elizabeth SiegelISBN 0226811670 (0-226-81167-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971'Book summary:One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of influential teachers and students, including Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind. To date, however, the ID's enormous contributions to the art and practice of photography have gone largely unexplored. Taken by Design is the first publication to examine thoroughly this remarkable institution and its lasting impact.[via]
With nearly 300 illustrations, including many never-before published photographs, Taken by Design examines the changing nature of photography over this critical period in America's midcentury. It starts by documenting the experimental nature of Moholy's Bauhaus approach and photography's new and enhanced role in training the "complete designer." Next it traces the formal and abstract camera experiments under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, which aimed at achieving a new kind of photographic subjectivity. Finally, it highlights the ID's focus on conscious references to the processes of the photographic medium itself. In addition to photographs by Moholy, Callahan, and Siskind, the book showcases works by Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, and many others. Major essays from experts in the field, biographies, a chronology, and reprints of critical essays are also included, making Taken by Design an essential work for anyone interested in the history of American photography.
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Keith Davis, Lloyd Engelbrecht, John Grimes, Nathan Lyons, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Elizabeth Siegel, David Travis, Larry Viskochil, James N. WoodMore editions of Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971:
Television and Human Behaviorby George ComstockISBN 0231044208 (0-231-04420-8)
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The Three Worldsby Peter WorsleyISBN 0226907554 (0-226-90755-4)
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Touching: The Human Significance of the Skinby Ashley MontaguISBN 0231034881 (0-231-03488-1)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Town in the Ruhr: A Social History of Rochum, 1860-1914by David F. CrewISBN 0231043007 (0-231-04300-7)
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policyby William Julius WilsonISBN 0226901319 (0-226-90131-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy'Book summary:"The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they--as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races--would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis."--Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review[via]
"'Must reading' for civil-rights leaders, leaders of advocacy organizations for the poor, and for elected officials in our major urban centers."--Bernard C. Watson, Journal of Negro Education
"Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass."--David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World
Selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the sixteen best books of 1987.
Winner of the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.More editions of The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy:
The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy And American Democracyby Catherine H. Zuckert, Michael ZuckertISBN 0226993329 (0-226-99332-9)
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The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947by John Lewis GaddisISBN 0231032897 (0-231-03289-7)
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Urban Frontier: Pioneer Life in Early Pittsburghby R.C. WadeISBN 0226868427 (0-226-86842-7)
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A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Piecesby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0226893901 (0-226-89390-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces'Book summary:A few months ago, a friend I was talking with began to tell me about a friend of his named Gary Isaacs, who was working at the downtown headquarters of one of the city's top investment houses as an executive in the division monitoring the savings-and-loan crisis. Though Isaacs was just thirty-two years old, my friend recounted, he had previously worked on the Street in several other capacities as well, and before that he'd had a notably successful career in an entirely different field; what's more, it seemed he was about to quit this one, too, and to head off in yet another direction. When I asked my friend what the previous career had been, and, for that matter, what the new one was going to be, he replied that it would be far more entertaining for me to hear the whole story from the man himself, which is how, a few days later, I came to find myself in the sleek elevator of one of downtown's better-known headquarters zooming up towards I didn't have the faintest idea what.
Lawrence Weschler is, simply put, one of the best journalists ever to have written for the New Yorker--of an equal rank to masters like Joseph Mitchell, Philip Hamburger, and John McPhee. Most of the articles in this volume were first published in 1988 as Shapinsky's Karma, Boggs's Bills, and Other True-Life Tales (the story of Boggs has been extracted and expanded into its own book); each of them profiles a creative individual who "works and works at something, which then happens of its own accord: it would not have happened without all the prior work, true, but its happening cannot be said to have resulted from all that work, the way effects are said to result from a series of causes." For republication, Weschler has provided updates on each of his subjects, from Maus creator Art Spiegelman to the now-deceased musical lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky (whom Weschler profiled at the age of 92, and arguably at the peak of his career). He's also added two new "passion pieces," including a profile of comic artist Ben Katchor. A Wanderer in the Perfect City is as close to perfect as books get, and my advice to you is to get a copy, read it, and then reread it whenever your faith in literature needs restoring. If at all possible, get two copies, so you can share this graceful anthology yet never have to part with it. (Oh, and in case you were wondering, Gary Isaacs was a former rocket scientist who ran away from Wall Street to join the circus.) --Ron Hogan [via]More editions of A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces:
Water Witching, U.S.A.by Ray Hyman, Evon VogtISBN 0226862984 (0-226-86298-4)
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Women Of The Forestby Yolanda Murphy, Robert Francis MurphyISBN 023103881X (0-231-03881-X)
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Writing News for Broadcastby Edward Bliss, John Meredith PattersonISBN 023103492X (0-231-03492-X)
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