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Philosophy

Facets of the Human Condition Truthtelling and Being Human

Berkowitz Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781551647616, ISBN: HB: 9781551647630, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while...

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Literary Criticism

Fat New and Uncollected Prose

Di Piero W. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...

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America

General

Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation

Mohabir Nalini, Cummings Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Future Sea How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans

Rowan Wright Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226542676, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop th...

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History

Forbidden Knowledge Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Marcus Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780226736587, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on libra...

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Fiction

Further News of Defeat Stories

Wang Michael X.

ISBN: PB: 9781938769641, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Steeped in a long history of violence and suffering, Michael X. Wang's debut collection of short stories interrogates personal and political events set against the backdrop of China that are both real and perceived, imagined and speculative. Wang plu...

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Business & Economics

Europe

From Old Regime to Industrial State A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I

Tilly Richard H., Kopsidis Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226725437, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 23 line drawings, 66 tables

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead co...

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Contemporary Art

Fluxus Forms Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network

Harren Natilee

ISBN: HB: 9780226354927, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 12 colour plates, 70 halftones

"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art... Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples", writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world enthr...

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Poetry

Flourish

Malech Dora

ISBN: PB: 9780887486555, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In "Flourish", multiple meanings catch light – as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in distress. These poems explore themes of thriving, growth, innovation, and survival, while immersing t...

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Business & Economics

Fully Grown Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success

Vollrath Dietrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226666006, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 figures, 7 tables

Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has sl...

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