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Fiction

Walking A Novella

Bernhard Thomas, Northcott Kenneth J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311043, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
104 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samu...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Non-Sovereign Futures French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment

Bonilla Yarimar

ISBN: PB: 9780226283814, ISBN: HB: 9780226283784, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions – or even paradoxes – in our current postcolonial era. In "Non-Sovereign Futures", Yarimar Bonilla w...

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Buddhism

Nothing Three Inquiries in Buddhism

Boon Marcus, Cazdyn Eric, Morton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780226233260, ISBN: HB: 9780226233123, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
296 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism – a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of...

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Nature

Ecology

Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie Australia, America, and the Environment

Bradshaw Corey J. A., Ehrlich Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316987, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 2 maps, 1 line drawing

Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive – the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth – and both possess a vast amount o...

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Philosophy

Freedom Regained The Possibility of Free Will

Baggini Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226319896, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and is at the heart of numerous political, social, and personal concerns: Do we have free will? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of fre...

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History

Nature's Ghosts Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

Barrow Mark V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323657, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones

The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized – and worried about – the pr...

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America

Culture Studies

Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

Bennett Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226323794, ISBN: HB: 9780226042930, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Our traditional image of Chicago – as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends – is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to no...

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Education

America

University of Chicago A History

Boyer John W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226242514, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
704 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 1...

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Literary Criticism

Musings on Mortality From Tolstoy to Primo Levi

Brombert Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226323824, ISBN: HB: 9780226062358, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"All art and the love of art", Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal "Musings on Mortality", "allow us to negate our nothingness". As a young man returning from World War II, Brombert came to understand this truth as he immer...

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Contemporary Art

After Year Zero Geographies of Collaboration

Busch Annett, Franke Anselm

ISBN: PB: 9788364177255, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, September 2015
220 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Published in conjunction with an exhibition that has traveled to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt, this volume takes as its starting point the realignment of global ties after 1945...

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