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Literary Criticism

Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space

Kornbluh Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...

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Business & Economics

Out of Stock The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism

Orenstein Dara

ISBN: PB: 9780226662909, ISBN: HB: 9780226662879, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones

In "Out of Stock", Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century's bonded warehouses...

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History of Art

Painting with Fire Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object

Hunter Matthew C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226390253, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 68 halftones,

"Painting with Fire" shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century – and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the...

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Anthropology

Participant A Century of Participation in Four Stories

Kelty Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226666761, ISBN: HB: 9780226666624, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings

Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposi...

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Linguistics

Form and Meaning in Language Volume II: Papers on Discourse and Pragmatics

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781684000548, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
335 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questio...

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Middle East

Partitioning Palestine British Policymaking at the End of Empire

Sinanoglou Penny

ISBN: HB: 9780226665788, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

"Partitioning Palestine" is the first history of the ideological and political forces that led to the idea of partition – that is, a division of territory and sovereignty – in British mandate Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Inve...

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Linguistics

Form and Meaning in Language Volume III: Papers on Linguistic Theory and Constructions

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781684000562, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
330 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questio...

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Sea Life

Ecology

All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome

Crowley Patrick R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...

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Ecology

Phylogenetic Ecology A History, Critique, and Remodeling

Swenson Nathan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671505, ISBN: HB: 9780226671475, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 10 tables

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they have come to discover the field's power to illuminate present ecological patterns and processes. Ecolo...

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