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Contemporary Art

Traces of Modernism Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism

Cioli Monica, Ricciardi Maurizio, Schiera Pierangelo

ISBN: PB: 9783593510309, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
222 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 4 halftones

"Traces of Modernism" surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributor...

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Architecture

Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets

Clarke Albright Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9781947602663, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2020
180 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 75 colour illus., 23 line drawings and figures

"Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets" draws attention to the simple but elusive architectural space of public and farmers markets. It discusses three seminal types of markets – heritage building, open-air pavil...

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Computer Science & Internet

Promiscuous Knowledge Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

Cmiel Kenneth, Durham Peters John

ISBN: HB: 9780226611853, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings,

Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to the "mind of God". As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics indifferently in news, maps, weather, and porn. This book, b...

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Cultural Studies

Ecology

Pure Adulteration Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food

Cohen Benjamin R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226377926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 halftones

In the late nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to t...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Working Longer

Coile Courtney, Milligan Kevin, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226619293, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables

Developed countries during the last two decades have seen a long-term decline in men's labor force participation at older ages, followed by a more recent pattern of sharply rising participation rates. Participation rates for women at older ages have...

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Ecology

Abundant Earth Toward an Ecological Civilization

Crist Eileen

ISBN: PB: 9780226596808, ISBN: HB: 9780226596778, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

In "Abundant Earth", Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes – a large and growing h...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome

Crowley Patrick R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...

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Women Studies

Soviet Signoras Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration

Cvajner Martina

ISBN: PB: 9780226662398, ISBN: HB: 9780226662251, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and party systems. So often absent from these conversations...

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America

Civic Gifts Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

Clemens Elisabeth S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226670836, ISBN: HB: 9780226559360, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 7 tables

In "Civic Gifts", Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despi...

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History of Art

Endless Periphery Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy

Campbell Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226481456, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 127 colour plates, 45 halftones

While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the...

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