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Philosophy

Memoirs Hans Jonas

Jonas Hans

ISBN: PB: 9781684580460, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

When Hans Jonas died in 1993, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogen...

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Business & Economics

America

Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City

Jenkins Destin

ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...

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America

Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918

Jenkins Jeffery A., Peck Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780226756363, ISBN: HB: 9780226756226, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 10 tables

Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But, as Reconstruction came to an end and legal and social discrimination against African Americans became widespread, civil rights...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 28

Jeon Hae-Sung

ISBN: PB: 9781684000715, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both language...

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Pediatrics

Community-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health, Volume 1

Jacquez Farrah, Svedin Lina

ISBN: HB: 9781947602687, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Communitiy-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health" is the first in a seven-series volume that looks at participatory public health research studies conducted by scholar/community interdisciplinary teams. In this volume, academics work toge...

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Asia

East Asian Dimension of the First World War Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919

Jan Schmidt, Katja Schmidtpott

ISBN: PB: 9783593507514, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2021
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 30 halftones

Though when people discuss World War I, they usually center on the fighting in Europe, it truly was a global war. This book examines the role of East Asia in the fighting. It looks at how East Asian commentators saw and interpreted the war, both in E...

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Europe

Economic Rise of the Czech Lands I From the 1750s to the End of World War I

Jindra Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024638065, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
500 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 85 graphs and charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This first of a two-part examination of the economic development of the Czech lands deals with the period from the mid-eighteenth century (the accession of Maria Theresa to the Austrian th...

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America

Philosophy

Deconstruction An American Institution

Jones-Katz Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226536057, ISBN: HB: 9780226535869, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that h...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Automatic Religion Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226749723, ISBN: HB: 9780226749693, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers – free will and religion – are in some ways fundamentally opposed. While free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives...

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Computer Science & Internet

Culture Studies

Experimental Games Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification

Jagoda Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226629971, ISBN: HB: 9780226629834, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and other forms of gaming, such as board games, role...

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