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Psychology

Fuckology Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts

Downing Lisa, Morland Iain, Sullivan Nikki

ISBN: PB: 9780226186610, ISBN: HB: 9780226186580, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists – or "fuckologists" to use his own memorable term – John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money...

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General

Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery

DeGloma Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...

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Literary Criticism

Galateo Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior

Della Casa Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9780226212197, ISBN: HB: 9780226010977, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

"Since it is the case that you are now just beginning that journey that I have for the most part as you see completed, that is, the one through mortal life, and loving you so very much as I do, I have proposed to myself – as one who has been many pla...

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Anthropology

Beyond Nature and Culture

Descola Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9780226212364, ISBN: HB: 9780226144450, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
488 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 3 line illus.

Successor to Claude Levi-Strauss at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and "Beyond Nature and Culture" has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Experimenters Chance and Design at Black Mountain College

Diaz Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780226067988, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 58 halftones

In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there...

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Linguistics

Language and the Creative Mind

Dancygier Barbara, Borkent Mike, Hinnell Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781575866710, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2014
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and...

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History of Art

Education

Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)

Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette

ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...

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Evolution

Subjects of the World Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature

Davies Paul Sheldon

ISBN: PB: 9780226137636, ISBN: HB: 9780226137629, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical age...

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Literary Criticism

Cruelty and Laughter Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

Dickie Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780226142548, ISBN: HB: 9780226146188, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental – the product of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie contests these assumptions in "Cruelty and Laughter", a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic l...

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Nature

Weeds of North America

Dickinson Richard, Royer France

ISBN: PB: 9780226076447, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1254 colour plates, 26 halftones, 125 line drawings

"What is a weed", opined Emerson, "but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?" While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root,...

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