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Thomism and Tolerance
ISBN: PB: 9781589662155, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, December 2010
130 pp., 21.5x13 cm
In this incisive study, John F. X. Knasas grounds the ideal of tolerance in Aquinas's natural law ethics and connects the virtue of civic tolerance to the concept of being. If God is the source of being, argues Knasas, then we are the articulation of...
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Selected Papers on Fun and Games
ISBN: PB: 9781575865843, ISBN: HB: 9781575865850, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Donald E. Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become cl...
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Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar
ISBN: PB: 9780226113319, ISBN: HB: 9780226113302, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 14 halftones
"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered t...
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Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness
ISBN: PB: 9780226907758, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal...
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Gravity's Ghost Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226113562, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 2 tables, 12 halftones
In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist. We are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation, which is generated when stars explode or collide and a portion of their mass becomes energy that ripples out like a disturbance on the surface of...
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Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman
ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...
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Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures
ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones
Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...
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Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths
ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.
Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...
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Enlightenment A Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226184494, ISBN: HB: 9780226184470, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
184 pp., 21.5x13 cm
What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first em...
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Globalizing American Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226185071, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studie...
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