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Philosophy

To Flourish or Destruct A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

Smith Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226759920, ISBN: HB: 9780226231952, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

In his 2010 book "What Is a Person?", Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dime...

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America

Accidental Pluralism America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662

Haefeli Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780226742618, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public arguments over the religious and political values that define it. In "Accidental Pluralism", Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diver...

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Decorative Arts

Design

West 86th A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture

Stirton Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226336930, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 24x19 cm, 55 colour plates, 45 halftones

Published on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center, "West 86th" focuses on scholarship in material culture, design history, and the decorative arts. In this issue, Eric Anderson examines how Angerer's photographs of Hans Makart's studio were informed by...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

West 86th, Volume 23, Issue 2

Stirton Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226441276, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, "West 86th" reaffirms the Center's commitment to expanding the conversation regarding the content, meaning, and significance of objects".West 86th"...

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Linguistics

Studies in Language and Information

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781684000500, ISBN: HB: 9781684000494, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
489 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book gathers together in one volume many influential papers by renowned philosopher of language John Perry.

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Education

Gender Studies

Designing in Class Activities to Promote Equity and Inclusion

Kumar Rita, Refaei Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781947602199, ISBN: HB: 9781947602236, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

According to recent research by scholar Lauren Musu-Gillette, college enrollment of traditional-aged students has increased notably in the past twenty years, with significant increases in the number of African-American and Hispanic males and Hispanic...

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Performing Arts

Rusalka A Lyrical Fairy-tale in Three Acts

Kvapil Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024643816, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
100 pp., 19x12.7 cm, 20 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Famous as the libretto for Antonin Dvorak's opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil's poem "Rusalka" is an intriguing work of literature on its own. Directly inspired by Hans Christian And...

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Contemporary Art

Allure of Matter Materiality Across Chinese Art

Cacchione Orianna, Lin Wei-Cheng

ISBN: PB: 9780935573640, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 110 colour plates

Building on the Art and Materiality Symposium held on the occasion of the Smart Museum's exhibition The Allure of Matter, this publication considers the important but often overlooked role materials have played in the history of Chinese art and inclu...

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Technology & Engineering

Anthropology

Excavating the Memory Palace Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer

Long Seth David

ISBN: PB: 9780226695280, ISBN: HB: 9780226695143, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 12 line drawings

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In reality, every era has faced its own challenges of storing, organizing, and accessing information. While th...

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Travel

Wake of the Unseen Object Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes

Kizzia Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602234307, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 map

A series of journeys to Alaska's remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup'ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely conte...

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