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Christianity

Volume 2: Filaments Theological Profiles

Tracy David

ISBN: HB: 9780226567327, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought...

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Fiction

Waiting A Collection of Stories

Gandhi Nighat

ISBN: HB: 9789385932540, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young girls struggle for the "purity" that religion deman...

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History

Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics

Epple Moritz, Imhausen Annette, Muller Falk

ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...

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History

New Prometheans Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siecle

Raia Courtenay

ISBN: PB: 9780226635354, ISBN: HB: 9780226635217, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In a world increasingly shut in by the iron-clad determinism of Victorian physics, the Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882, tasked itself with finding scientific evidence for phenomena science had all but denied. The point was not to re...

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Cartography

When Maps Become the World

Gronfeldt Winther Rasmus

ISBN: PB: 9780226674728, ISBN: HB: 9780226669670, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 37 halftones

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our re...

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Philosophy

Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

Patton Laurie L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226675985, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Who Owns Religion?" focuses on a period – the late 1980s through the 1990s – when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves honoring through their work. While controversies inv...

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Fiction

Why I Write? The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: HB: 9788024642680, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Marechal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing". Taken...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Leibniz, or The Best of All Possible Worlds

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783035801422, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2020
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 64 colour plates

Vienna, 1714: Late in life, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the universal genius of his time, puts down his pen and declares his description of the universe to be complete. In the evening, he sits in his study room among letters, books, and manuscripts as...

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Sea Life

Why Study Biology by the Sea?

Matlin Karl S., Maienschein Jane, Ankeny Rachel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226672939, ISBN: HB: 9780226672762, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 6 line drawings

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the...

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Contemporary Art

William Trost Richards Hieroglyphs of Landscape

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850393, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2020
215 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 277 colour plates

This catalog accompanies the first monographic examination of the art of William Trost Richards in Boston. The exhibition, presented at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, features oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings, including many ra...

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