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Contemporary Art

Aesthetics at Large Volume 1: Art, Ethics, Politics

de Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226546735, ISBN: HB: 9780226546568, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgment", Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of "Aesthetics at Large", is as relevant to the appreciation of art today as it was to the enjoyment of beautiful nature in 1790. Going against the grain of all aesthe...

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Public Health

Community Health Equity A Chicago Reader

De Maio Fernando, Shah Raj C., Mazzeo John, Ansell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226614625, ISBN: HB: 9780226614595, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones, 55 tables

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity".Community Health Equity" assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago's structural socioecono...

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Biography & Memoires

Anthropology

Water Mask

Devine Monica

ISBN: PB: 9781602233720, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Water Mask" is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two...

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Jewish Studies

Donigers of Great Neck A Mythologized Memoir

Doniger Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781512603521, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Many memories, many myths" – this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general – and acknowledging the my...

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Contemporary Art

Women Studies

MIRIAM CAHN I AS HUMAN

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788364177552, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2019
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 40 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and perform...

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Philosophy

Theory and Practice

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226572345, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Theory and Practice" is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential in...

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Contemporary Art

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: HB: 9780226439471, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 73 halftones

Aby Warburg's "Mnemosyne Atlas" (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminat...

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America

Bulls Markets Chicago's Basketball Business and the New Inequality

Dinces Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226583211, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 25 tables

The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners i...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Henry David Thoreau A Life

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226599373, ISBN: HB: 9780226344690, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
640 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live". That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small...

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Africa

Political Science

Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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