Peter Hennen. Faeries, Bears and Leathermen. University of Chicago Press

Lars Peter Hansen University of Chicago and NBER

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11 Report of the Student Ombudsperson for Winter and Spring Quarters 1995—Andrew Varcoe 14 The 439th Convocation Address: “The Use and Misuse of Personal Information in a Technological Age” —Dr. Kenneth S. Polonsky Remarks—Joseph Neubauer Bachelor’s Degree Candidates’ Remarks— Rebecca Lee Feldman, Andrew James Spellman, Andrea Robin Wood Honorary Degrees Quantrell Awards Faculty Awards for Exce...

Sarah Kay, Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017), $49.00, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9780226436739 / 9780226436876.

works as Gyatso’s narrative strategy to capture her readers’ attention. She thus first places her main protagonist, Desi, and his medical legacy within the broader late seventeenthcentury political world in which he was a key player. She then disentangles the various ‘bones of contention’ and ‘roots of the profession’ that Desi inherited from his medical predecessors. The final chapter on the ‘...

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 444, $57.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-375-8.

hospital she had booked into. She was shaved, enema-ed, and wheeled into the labour ward, a huge room with beds of screaming women, separated by curtains and with students checking them. After the birth she was wheeled into a corridor for a day or two until a bed in a ward became available. She only had contact with her baby at feeding times, she was in bed for nine days, home on the tenth, ‘wi...

the effects of previewing and providing background knowledge on iranian university efl learners’ comprehension of literary and academic texts

abstract poor reading comprehension can result in failure in using references, benefiting from professional gatherings and resources, keeping up with the growing body of knowledge in the virtual world of the internet, and failing to achieve in efl programs. the purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to explore the effects of background knowledge and previewing narrative and expos...