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Contemporary Art

Andy Warhol, Publisher

Mulroney Lucy

ISBN: HB: 9780226542843, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
176 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 43 halftones

Although we know him best as a visual artist and filmmaker, Andy Warhol was also a publisher. Distributing his own books and magazines, as well as contributing to those of others, Warhol found publishing to be one of his greatest pleasures, largely b...

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Political Science

From Politics to the Pews How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity

Margolis Michele F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226555782, ISBN: HB: 9780226555645, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 59 line drawings, 34 tables

One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "God gap". Religious voters tend to identify with and support the Republican Party, while secular voters generally support the Democratic Party. Conventional wisdom suggests that religio...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Home for Surrealism

Mileaf Janine, Rossen Susan F.

ISBN: HB: 9781891925498, University of Chicago Press, Arts Club of Chicago, August 2018
136 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 40 colour plates, 28 figures

Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this interna...

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Contemporary Art

Biography & Memoires

Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the Avant-Garde A Biography

Mair Roswitha

ISBN: HB: 9780226311210, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 38 halftones

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a quiet innovator whose fame has too often been yoked to that of her husband, Jean Arp. Over time, however, she has slowly come to be seen as one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the twentieth century. The Swis...

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Literary Criticism

Views from the Inside Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948-1989)

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635927, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the later twentieth century displayed an astonishing, and unheralded, variety. This fasc...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Martin Heidegger's Grouch

Marchand Yan

ISBN: HB: 9783035800524, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Philosophy

Forgotten Sense Meditations on Touch

Maurette Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226561479, ISBN: HB: 9780226561332, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable – and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's c...

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General

Education

Education in a New Society Renewing the Sociology of Education

Mehta Jal, Davies Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226517421, ISBN: HB: 9780226517391, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 tables

In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of in...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Future Remains A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene

Mitman Gregg, Armiero Marco, Emmett Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226508795, ISBN: HB: 9780226508658, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 9 halftones

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene – the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 32

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226577524, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The six research studies in Volume 32 of Tax Policy and the Economy analyze the U. S. tax and transfer system, in particular its effects on revenues, expenditures, and economic behavior. First, James Andreoni examines donor advised funds, which are f...

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