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Business & Economics

Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else Selected Writings

Davis Harry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226111131, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Harry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become one of the most influential figures in business education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leade...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Post-Post-Soviet Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade

Dziewanska Marta, Degot Ekaterina, Budratskis Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9788393381845, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, July 2013
300 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in Poland! By placing emerging artists in their political and social contexts, this collection attempts to confront the new activist scene that has arisen in the Russian art world during the past years. The recent explosion of protests...

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Nature

Ecology

Crown Jewels Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face

Delehanty Randolph

ISBN: PB: 9781933253732, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, May 2013
220 pp., 22.9x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park movement has spread quickly and internationally. There are now over seven thousand national parks in 140 countries, and these numbers continue to grow. But national parks...

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Poetry

Theme of Farewell and After-Poems A Bilingual Edition

de Angelis Milo

ISBN: PB: 9780226020808, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
168 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Milo De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. With this volume, Susan Stewart andPatrizio Ceccagnoli bring to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy,...

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Philosophy

Signature Derrida

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226924540, ISBN: HB: 9780226924526, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
408 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with "Critical Inquiry" and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed f...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Disturbing Practices History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War

Doan Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226001616, ISBN: HB: 9780226001586, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line illus.

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet or...

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Law

Biography & Memoires

Attorney for the Damned Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Darrow Clarence

ISBN: PB: 9780226136509, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
576 pp., 21.5x14 cm

"Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced. All of Darrow's most celebrated pleas are here – in defense of Leopold and Loeb (1924), of Lieutenant Massie (...

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Anthropology

Ecology

Ecology of Others Anthropology and the Question of Nature

Descola Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9780984201020, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2013
90 pp., 17.8x11 cm

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure f...

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Children's Books

Kayak Girl

Devine Monica

ISBN: PB: 9781602231887, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
32 pp., 25.5x21.6 cm

In "Kayak Girl" a young child learns to cope with serious loss by focusing on something larger than herself. After Jana's mother dies, she becomes withdrawn. Her grandfather, a carver, pays the girl a visit and finds her unresponsive to his care. He...

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Architecture

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architecture after Images

Dimendberg Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780226151816, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
248 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 31 halftones

In "Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images", Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofi...

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