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  • In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and…

    Custer's Last Stand - The Unfinished Manuscript

    Chicago Shorts By Norman Maclean University of Chicago Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780226048871 Language:  English
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  • This is the riveting tale of two brave nonconformists whose dramatic lives open up new perspectives on the history of the twentieth century. Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were…

    Erika and Klaus Mann in New York - Escape from the Magic Mountain

    Chicago Shorts By Andrea Weiss University of Chicago Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780226049403 Language:  English
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  • In A Short History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?, Susie Linfield contends that by looking at images of political violence and learning to see the people in…

    A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate…

    Chicago Shorts By Susie Linfield University of Chicago Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780226049069 Art & Architecture, Photography Language:  English
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  • Roger Ebert is a name synonymous with the movies. In Ebert’s Bests, he takes readers through the journey of how he became a film critic, from his days at a student-run cinema club to his rise as a…

    Ebert's Bests

    Chicago Shorts By Roger Ebert University of Chicago Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780226048901 Film, History & Criticism Language:  English
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  • Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. In Nixon and the Silver Screen, Mark Feeney offers a new and often revelatory way of thinking about one of…

    Nixon and the Silver Screen

    Chicago Shorts By Mark Feeney University of Chicago Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780226049236 Biography & Memoir, Political Language:  English
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  • Baseball Hall of Famer Bill Veeck (1914–86) was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. Bill Veeck’s Crosstown Classic, drawn…

    Bill Veeck's Crosstown Classic

    Chicago Shorts By Bill Veeck, Ed Linn rating of short cover   ( 7 customer ratings) University of Chicago Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780226049540 Biography & Memoir, Sports Language:  English
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  • Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. Rabbits with Horns and Other Astounding Viruses explores the bizarre places viruses dwell, and…

    Rabbits with Horns and Other Astounding Viruses

    Chicago Shorts By Carl Zimmer University of Chicago Press, December 2012 ISBN: 9780226048734 Biological Sciences, Microbiology Language:  English
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  • Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a…

    Spiral Jetta Summer - Swimming in the Great Salt Lake

    Chicago Shorts By Erin Hogan University of Chicago Press, June 2013 ISBN: 9780226094267 Art History, American Language:  English
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  • Born in Australia, novelist Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city, in…

    The Incident at Naples

    Chicago Shorts By Francis Steegmuller University of Chicago Press, June 2013 ISBN: 9780226094601 Language:  English
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  • When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea’s waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active…

    Hagfish Slime and Lobster Rolls

    Chicago Shorts By Ellen Prager University of Chicago Press, June 2013 ISBN: 9780226094571 Science & Nature, Nature Language:  English
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