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April Features

In The Wagon and Other Stories from the City Chicago police officer Martin Preib writes about life, death, and everything in between on the streets of Chicago, from noir-like reports of police work to streetwise meditations on life and darkly humorous accounts of jobs in the city’s service industry. Read “Body Bags”, the story of his first assignment as a rookie policeman on the wagon that picks up the dead.

Sometimes the dead do not rest in peace. With Digging Up the Dead, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and sometimes gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial from throughout American history. The reburial of Jefferson Davis is related in the introduction.

High school students, two-year college students, and university students all need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper—and for decades Kate Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them develop this critical skill. The team behind our widely respected The Craft of Research has reconceived and renewed this classic for the new fourth edition. See a Web site for the book.

Mies van der Rohe once said, “Only skyscrapers under construction reveal their bold constructive thoughts, and then the impression made by their soaring skeletal frames is overwhelming.” In Architecture under Construction Stanley Greenberg captures penetrating images that reveal the complex mystery—and beauty—found in the transitory moments before the skin of a building obscures its structure. See a gallery of photographs from the book.

News

The Gordon J. Laing Award is given annually by the Press to the University of Chicago faculty author, editor, or translator of a book published in the previous three years that brings the Press the greatest distinction. The 2010 Laing Award winner is Martha Feldman for her critically acclaimed work in Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy. See a list of past Laing Award winners.

2010 Readers Catalog

Lots of great reading will be found in the hundreds of new and classic works in our 2010 Readers Catalog. Books in all subject areas and geared to the general reader. Most books are discounted 20% when you use promo code AD9376.

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