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Education

Curren Randall, Dorn Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226552392, ISBN: HB: 9780226552255, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating nationa...

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Philosophy

Plotinus Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice

Clark Stephen R. L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565057, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian and Muslim theologians,...

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Anthropology

Politics of Custom Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa

Comaroff John L., Comaroff Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226510934, ISBN: HB: 9780226510767, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are instead a rising force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Young Descartes Nobility, Rumor, and War

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226462967, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am". But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of h...

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History of Art

Outliers and American Vanguard Art

Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780226522272, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
448 pp., 30.4x25 cm, 450 colour plates

Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it ha...

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Anthropology

Mistrust An Ethnographic Theory

Carey Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780997367522, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
134 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex politi...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Pathways of Desire The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men

Carrillo Hector

ISBN: PB: 9780226517735, ISBN: HB: 9780226508177, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings

With "Pathways of Desire", Hector Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attent...

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Business & Economics

Polonica

Start-Up Poland The People Who Transformed an Economy

Cienski Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780226306810, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Poland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as "bread", "shoes", and "milk products", from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you'd be ha...

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Anthropology

Owners of Kinship Asymmetrical Relations in Indigenous Amazonia

Costa Luiz

ISBN: PB: 9780997367591, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings

"The Owners of Kinship" investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an "owner" and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationshi...

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Europe

Medieval

Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries

Champion Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226514796, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 32 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself".The Fullness of Time" explores that struggle, and the ch...

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