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Film Studies

Morris Errol

ISBN: HB: 9780226922683, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 49 colour plates, 39 halftones

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the cre...

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General

Failed Individual Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity

Motyl Katharina, Schober Regina

ISBN: PB: 9783593507828, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
399 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? "The Failed Indivi...

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Philosophy

On Descartes' Passive Thought The Myth of Cartesian Dualism

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: HB: 9780226192581, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"On Descartes' Passive Thought" is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his pre...

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Political Science

Uncivil Agreement How Politics Became Our Identity

Mason Lilliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226524542, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 line drawings, 15 tables

Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable...

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Genetics

Visions of Cell Biology Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology"

Matlin Karl, Maienschein Jane, Laubichler Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9780226520513, ISBN: HB: 9780226520483, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances – in particular, the electron microscope and cell fractionation – its origins actually date to the...

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Cartography

How to Lie with Maps Third Edition

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226435923, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones

An instant classic when first published in 1991, "How to Lie with Maps" revealed how the choices mapmakers make – consciously or unconsciously – mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. Th...

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Education

Navigating Conflict How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School

Morrill Calvin, Musheno Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226523736, ISBN: HB: 9780226538761, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 line drawings, 14 tables

Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In "Navigating Conflict", Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban...

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Poetry

Just Between Us

McElroy David

ISBN: PB: 9781602233508, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Just Between Us" is a celebration of the vivid human connections that occur when traveling through some of the world's most stirring landscapes. David McElroy, a former pilot in the far north, transports us from the Arctic to the tropics, over rural...

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Anthropology

Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles

Mohan Urmila

ISBN: PB: 9781941792131, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
220 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 100 colour plates

Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in using visual anthropological techniques to study the aesthetics of bodily motion in Bali. What is less well known is that they also collected textiles, paintings, puppets, and carving...

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Ecology

Future of Conservation in America A Chart for Rough Water

Machlis Gary E., Jarvis Jonathan B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226542058, ISBN: HB: 9780226541860, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 7 halftones

This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America's natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenge...

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