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Literary Criticism

Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

Der-Wei Wang David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...

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Philosophy

Thinking Out of Sight Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226140612, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today – and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thin...

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Literary Criticism

Fat New and Uncollected Prose

Di Piero W. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...

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Literary Criticism

Weak Planet Literature and Assisted Survival

Dimock Wai Chee

ISBN: PB: 9780226477107, ISBN: HB: 9780226477077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature...

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Education

How Schools Really Matter Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

Downey Douglas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226733227, ISBN: HB: 9780226733197, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 figures

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal – that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools se...

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Psychology

Anthropology

With the Wind and the Waves A Guide to Mental Health Practices in Alaska Native Communities

Droby Ray M.

ISBN: PB: 9781602234161, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In With the Wind and the Waves, psychologist Ray M. Droby tells a story of treatment and learning, drawing on experiences ranging from an ocean journey he took on the Bering Sea while serving in a Alaska Native community to his clinical work as a psy...

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Contemporary Art

Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum

Dominguez Rubio Fernando

ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings

How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...

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Philosophy

Life Death

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226699516, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, "Life Death" challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of t...

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Genetics

Heredity under the Microscope Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome

de Chadarevian Soraya

ISBN: PB: 9780226685113, ISBN: HB: 9780226685083, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

By focusing on chromosomes, "Heredity under the Microscope" offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twe...

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General

Problem with Feeding Cities The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226703077, ISBN: HB: 9780226702919, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 tables

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents...

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