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Culture Studies

Switching Codes Thinking through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Bartscherer Thomas, Coover Roderick

ISBN: PB: 9780226038315, ISBN: HB: 9780226038308, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
448 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 40 halftones, 4 line illus.

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change...

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Philosophy

Transfigurements On the True Sense of Art

Sallis John

ISBN: PB: 9780226734187, ISBN: HB: 9780226734224, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
204 pp., 22.6x15 cm

"Transfigurements" develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in their texts and theories while a...

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Law

Death of the American Trial

Burns Robert P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226081274, ISBN: HB: 9780226081267, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
200 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In "The Death of the American Trial", distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's greatest achievements. As a practice that is adapted f...

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Philosophy

Royal Remains The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty

Santner Eric L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226735368, ISBN: HB: 9780226735351, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

"The king is dead. Long live the king!" In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign – and the right to rule was immediately transferrable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In "The Royal Remains", Eric L. Santner a...

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Law

Judicial Power of the Purse How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis

Staudt Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226771144, ISBN: HB: 9780226771120, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 16 tables, 10 line illus.

Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies...

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Business & Economics

Accelerating Energy Innovation Insights from Multiple Sectors

Henderson Rebecca M., Newell Richard G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226326832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 9 tables, 1 halftone, 31 line illus.

Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring 2011, Issue 26

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380754, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates

"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2010 Volume 25

Acemoglu Daron, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226002132, ISBN: HB: 9780226002125, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
440 pp., 23x15 cm

"The NBER Macroeconomics Annual" features theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of macroeconomics, addressing central issues within the discipline. These issues range from short-run macroeconomic fluctuations to international economic...

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Philosophy

Once Out of Nature Augustine on Time and the Body

Nightingale Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9780226585758, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

"Once Out of Nature" offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to analyze Augustine's conception of temporality, eternity, an...

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Poetry

Red Rover

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226774558, ISBN: HB: 9780226774541, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
120 pp., 21.3x15.2 cm

"Red Rover" is both the name of a children's game and a formless spirit, a god of release and permission, called upon in the course of that game. The "red rover" is also a thread of desire, and a clue to the forces of love and antipathy that shape ou...

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