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Philosophy

Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645490, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Spirit of the Laws" – Montesquieu's huge, complex, and enormously influential work – is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Debate of the "Romance of the Rose"

Pizan Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780226670133, ISBN: HB: 9780226670126, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read "Romance of the Rose" for its blatant and unwarran...

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Business & Economics

Law and Happiness

Posner Eric A., Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676012, ISBN: HB: 9780226676005, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm

Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness – or "hedonics" – has developed into a formal field of inquiry,...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Pepperell Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226655390, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 370 colour illus.

Between the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the enti...

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Reference

Sinclair Lewis A Descriptive Bibliography, Second Edition

Pastore Stephen R.

ISBN: HB: 9781589661561, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, August 2009
350 pp., 23x15 cm, 110 halftones

Sinclair Lewis, celebrated author of "Babbitt and Main Street", wrote more than twenty novels in the course of his prolific career, most of which went through several editions over the years. This is the definitive descriptive bibliography of the Lew...

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Cultural Studies

Accounting for Taste The Triumph of French Cuisine

Parkhurst Ferguson Priscilla

ISBN: PB: 9780226243245, ISBN: HB: 9780226243238, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
262 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.

French cuisine is such a staple in our understanding of fine food that we forget the accidents of history that led to its creation".Accounting for Taste" brings these "accidents" to the surface, illuminating the magic of French cuisine and the myster...

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History of Art

Jean-Antoine Houdon Sculptor of the Enlightenment

Poulet Anne L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676494, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
400 pp., 28.1x22.8 cm, 144 colour plates, 225 halftones

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1826) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century, flourishing during both the American and French Revolutions as well as during the Directoire and Empire in France. Whe...

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Contemporary Art

Bed As Autobiography A Visual Exploration of John Ransom Phillips

Phillips John Ransom, Doniger Wendy, Jordan Ariel Orr

ISBN: HB: 9780974663104, University of Chicago Press, February 2004
174 pp., 34.9x24.6 cm, 190 illus.

We "take to our beds" to be born and to grow, to hide and to dream, to lie alone and cling together, to come of age and make love, to create and procreate, to ail and to heal, to rest and to die. Key rites of human passage occur underneath the swathe...

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History of Art

Futurist Moment Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226657387, University of Chicago Press, December 2003
336 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm

Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consider...

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Polonica

Europe

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...

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