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Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...

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Political Science

State As Parent Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family

Reardon Laurence Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9781589662032, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, January 2021
300 pp., 23x15 cm

Much of modern political and social thought tends to take for granted the fact that traditional conceptions of the family – with their accompanying duties and privileges – are an inherent imposition on individual freedom. With "The State As Parent",...

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Education

Teachers on the Waves of Transformation School Culture Before and After 1989

Moree Dana

ISBN: PB: 9788024643779, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
275 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! It is known that a society in transformation undergoes significant changes on many levels, but structural and cultural changes are arguably two of the most significant. How do such monumen...

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Islam

Believing in South Central Everyday Islam in the City of Angels

Prickett Pamela J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747286, ISBN: HB: 9780226747149, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographic...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism A Philosophical Manifesto

Morris Brian

ISBN: PB: 9781551647425, ISBN: HB: 9781551647449, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical so...

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Medieval

Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

Even-Ezra Ayelet

ISBN: HB: 9780226743080, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables

We think with objects – we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think wi...

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America

General

Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Ecology

Diet for a Large Planet Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology

Otter Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226697109, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones

We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination

Clarke Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780226790107, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A...

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Medieval

Boccaccio's "Decameron" Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition

Cervigni Dino S.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986069, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
554 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This study develops a new interpretation of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, which has found new popularity in the wake of COVID. Dino S. Cervigni offers an inclusive and novel reading of the collection, theorizing that the first nine...

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