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History of Art

Illuminated Paris Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: HB: 9780226593869, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 75 colour plates, 32 halftones

The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplif...

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Linguistics

Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen

Condoravdi Cleo, Holloway King Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9781684000487, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, May 2019
599 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the fo...

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Philosophy

With the World at Heart Studies in the Secular Today

Carlson Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226617534, ISBN: HB: 9780226617367, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-centu...

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Education

Adjunct Underclass How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Childress Herb

ISBN: HB: 9780226496665, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 23 tables

Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car... to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly...

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Law

Just Words Law, Language, and Power (Third Edition)

Conley John M., O'Barr William M., Conley Riner Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780226484365, ISBN: HB: 9780226484228, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling th...

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Dogs

How Dogs Work

Coppinger Raymond, Feinstein Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226637761, ISBN: HB: 9780226128139, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend", but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Copping...

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America

Maxwell Street Writing and Thinking Place

Cresswell Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226604251, ISBN: HB: 9780226604114, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 57 halftones

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all...

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Political Science

America

Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century

Cebul Brent, Geismer Lily, Williams Mason B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...

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Education

Navigating Tenure and Beyond A Guide for Early Career Faculty

Christopher Sundar A.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970437, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2019
168 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 10 line drawings

This guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situat...

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Music

Pick Up the Pieces Excursions in Seventies Music

Corbett John

ISBN: HB: 9780226604732, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest – from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered...

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