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Culture Studies

Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism

Toney Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781551647272, ISBN: HB: 9781551647296, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administ...

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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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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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History

Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700786, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
504 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings

This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...

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Philosophy

Two Thumbs Up How Critics Aid Appreciation

Ross Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780226064284, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for cri...

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Literary Criticism

Teaching Archive A New History for Literary Study

Sagner Buurma Rachel, Heffernan Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226736136, ISBN: HB: 9780226735948, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. In Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's literary history, we watch T. S. Eliot and his working-class students revise...

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America

This Radical Land A Natural History of American Dissent

Miller Daegan

ISBN: PB: 9780226336282, ISBN: HB: 9780226336145, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature", wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America t...

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Cartography

Time in Maps From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

Wigen Karen, Winterer Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780226718590, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 80 maps

The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this software was developed, mapmakers around the world represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in...

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Philosophy

Thinking Out of Sight Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226140612, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today – and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thin...

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Poetry

This Red Metropolis What Remains

Penina Wilson Leia

ISBN: PB: 9781632430854, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains, Le...

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