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Sea as Mirror Essayings in and against Philosophy as History
ISBN: PB: 9783035803686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Sea as Mirror traces the pressing and repressed material and symbolic presence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from Plato to Heidegger. To do so, Wu Yi employs the maritime as a lens to understand the drive of philosophy as both a...
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Glazed Wares as Cultural Agents in the Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman Lands Evidence from Technological and Archaeological Research
ISBN: PB: 9786057685384, University of Chicago Press, Koc University Press, March 2021
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 173 colour plates, 170 figures, 3 tables
This volume collects research presented at the Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) 2018 international annual symposium. It brings together researchers engaged in the study of the decoration and technology of glazed pot...
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Sex, Death, and Minuets Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
ISBN: HB: 9780226617701, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 35 line drawings, 2 tables
At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-1760) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her cont...
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Remembrance of Things Present The Invention of the Time Capsule
ISBN: HB: 9780226574134, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones
Time capsules may seem trivial and useless to historians, but, as Nick Yablon shows in this new book, they offer crucial insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, and their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things P...
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Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...
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Lawsuits in a Market Economy The Evolution of Civil Litigation
ISBN: PB: 9780226546391, ISBN: HB: 9780226546254, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings
Some describe civil litigation as little more than a drag on the economy; Others hail it as the solution to most of the country's problems. Stephen C. Yeazell argues that both positions are wrong. Deeply embedded in our political and economic systems...
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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City
ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables
Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...
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Translation as Muse Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226279916, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with "Translation as Muse", she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus...
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Probing the Sky with Radio Waves From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226274393, ISBN: HB: 9780226015194, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 68 line illus.
By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was w...
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Recombinant University Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology
ISBN: HB: 9780226143835, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 10 line drawings
The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's "The Recombinant University" draws us deeply into the academic community in the Sa...
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