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Spring 2010
Contents
Cover image: Photograph by Phillip Colla/www.oceanlight.comCover design by Alice ReimannCatalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan
Piracy 
The Intellectual Property Warsfrom Gutenberg to Gates
 Adrian Johns
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40118-8Cloth $35.00
/£24.00
Gerhard Richter
 A Life in Painting
Dietmar Elger 
Translated by Elizabeth M. Solaro
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20323-2Cloth $45.00
/£31.00
Uncommon Sense
Economic Insights, fromMarriage to Terrorism
Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner 
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04101-8Cloth $29.00
/£20.00
Secrets of the Universe
How We Discovered the Cosmos
Paul Murdin
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55143-2Cloth $49.00
CUSA
Gems and Gemstones
Timeless Natural Beauty of theMineral World
Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30511-0Cloth $45.00
/£31.00
Great Plains
 America’s Lingering Wild
Michael Forsberg 
 With a Foreword by Ted KooserChapter Introductions by David Wishart and Essays by Dan O’Brien
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25725-9Cloth $45.00
/£31.00
Recently Published
General Interest 1Special Interest 31Paperbacks 73Distributed Books 94OrderingInformation 206Subject Index 207 Author Index 208Title Index Insideback cover
 
genera interest
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“This is a angeros ook. Who knowshow we wi emerge rom the enonter?It makes me want to ive, se m energiesin so-sie prsits ike jstie, ikeove. One o the psams sas that Gooets or tears in a ask—so too oesthis oetion o ast wors rom hmaneings eore the were kie.”—Sister Heen Prejean
TRUE CRIME AMERICAN HISTORY
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20268-6Cloth $22.50
/£14.50MAY304 p. 6 x 9
Roert K. Eer 
has written or the
New York Times 
,
Chicago Tribune 
,
Salon 
, andmany other publications. He teaches journalism at Northwestern University and is the author or editor o several books.
With a Foreword by Studs Terkel 
Last Words o the Executed
RObERT K. EldER
Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams.
D
eath waits or us all, but only those sentenced to death knowthe day and the hour—and only they can be sure that theirlast words will be recorded or posterity.
Last Words o the   Executed 
presents an oral history o American capital punishment, asheard rom the gallows, the chair, and the gurney.The product o seven years o extensive research by journalist Robert K. Elder, the book explores the cultural value o these nalstatements and asks what we can learn rom them. We hear rom boththe amous—such as Nathan Hale, Joe Hill, Ted Bundy, and JohnBrown—and the orgotten, and their words give us unprecedentedglimpses into their lives, their crimes, and the world they inhabited.Organized by era and method o execution, these nal statementsrange rom heartelt to horric. Some are calls or peace or criesagainst injustice; others are accepting, conessional, or consoling; stillothers are venomous, rage-ueled diatribes. Even the chills evoked by some o these last words are brought on in part by the shared human-ity we can’t ignore, their reminder that we all come to the same end,regardless o how we arrive there. 
Last Words o the Executed 
is not a political book. Rather, Eldersimply asks readers to listen closely to these voices that echo history.The result is a riveting, moving testament rom the darkest corners o society.
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DLGuerra

Looks like you have a winner with Travels in the Reich 1933-1945, Foreign Authors Report from Germany!

reply03 / 04 / 2010
UChicagoPress

New University of Chicago Press Spring 2010 list available... University of Chicago Press Spring 2010 Catalogue

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