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Accounting for Capitalism The World the Clerk Made

Zakim Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226977973, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of thi...

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Philosophy

Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226538945, ISBN: HB: 9780226538808, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn't be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world – and any sc...

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Christianity

America

American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975

Osborne Catherine R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....

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Contemporary Art

Aspects Fred Sandback's Sculpture

Vazquez Edward A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226407906, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 30 colour plates, 46 halftones

Stretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943-2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his art...

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Literary Criticism

Alice in Space The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

Beer Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9780226564692, ISBN: HB: 9780226041506, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass", Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 186...

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Education

America

American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education

Mattingly Paul H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226505268, ISBN: HB: 9780226505121, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it's...

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Sea Life

Ark and Beyond The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation

Minteer Ben A., Maienschein Jane, Collins James P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226538464, ISBN: HB: 9780226538327, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gatheri...

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Architecture

Automatic Architecture Motivating Form after Modernism

Keller Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226496498, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 53 halftones, 15 line drawings

In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor,...

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America

Across the Shaman's River John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North

Lee Henry Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781602233294, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 1 map

"Across the Shaman's River" is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and John Muir. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alas...

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Education

Agile Faculty Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching

Pope-Ruark Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780226463155, ISBN: HB: 9780226463018, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 13 line drawings, 21 tables

Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techni...

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