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Contemporary Art

1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change

Dziewanska Marta, Bishop Claire

ISBN: PB: 9788392404408, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
504 pp., 23x18 cm, 278 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change" is a selection of texts and presentations from the seminar "1968-1989" organized in Warsaw, July 2008, by the Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Claire Bishop. The...

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Cartography

Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader

Dym Jordana, Offen Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780226618227, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
360 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 halftones, 118 colour illus.

For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something – a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn't, an...

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Ancient World

Anthropology

Courtesans and Fishcakes The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

Davidson James N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137438, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 2 maps, 8 halftones

As any reader of the "Symposium" knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he ref...

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Evolution

Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm

Donohue Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226157719, ISBN: HB: 9780226157702, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
512 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 tables, 34 halftones, 70 line illus.

Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands – the giant tortoises and Darwin's fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most famil...

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History

Histories of Scientific Observation

Daston Lorraine, Lunbeck Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226136783, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 5 colour illus.

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic...

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Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy Redefined

Deely John

ISBN: HB: 9781589662162, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
450 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

With "Medieval Philosophy Redefined" John Deely provides an in-depth, original history of medieval philosophy, tracing a common thread that coherently unifies and defines what he calls "the Latin Age" – which reaches unbroken from the fifth-century w...

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Asia

Law

Asian Legal Revivals Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire

Dezalay Yves, Garth Bryant G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226144634, ISBN: HB: 9780226144627, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Lega...

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Linguistics

Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages

Daniele Godard

ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm

"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...

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Contemporary Art

Clement Greenberg Between the Lines Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg

Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226175164, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism – of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse – has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic o...

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Philosophy

Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader

Deely John

ISBN: PB: 9781589661486, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2010
465 pp., 23x15 cm

"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely – a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a prag...

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