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Talking Art The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226560212, ISBN: HB: 9780226560182, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

In "Talking Art", acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master's-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fi...

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Political Science

General

Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation

Fisher Williamson Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...

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Anthropology

Anthropology of the Machine Tokyo's Commuter Train Network

Fisch Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226558554, ISBN: HB: 9780226558417, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo's commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In "An Anthropology of the Machine", Michael Fisch provides a nuanced perspective on how Tokyo's...

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Business & Economics

U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy

Freeman Richard B., Salzman Hal

ISBN: HB: 9780226468334, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 line drawings, 61 tables

Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent".U. S. Engineering in a Global Economy" brings clarity to issues of supply and demand in this important ma...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Cultural Graphology Writing after Derrida

Fleming Juliet

ISBN: PB: 9780226565194, ISBN: HB: 9780226390420, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

"Cultural Graphology" could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida's speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertoo...

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General

Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives

Ferdowsian Hope

ISBN: HB: 9780226475936, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few things get our compassion flowing like the sight of suffering. But our response is often shaped by our ability to empathize with others. Some people respond to the suffering of only humans or to one person's plight more than another's. Others rea...

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Women Studies

Merits of Women Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

Fonte Moderata

ISBN: PB: 9780226550633, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man... Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps... Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when it's in fact b...

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Reference

Business of Being a Writer

Friedman Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226393162, ISBN: HB: 9780226393025, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writin...

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Anthropology

Europe

Governor's Residence in Tranquebar The House and the Daily Life of Its People, 1750-1845

Fihl Esther

ISBN: HB: 9788763543880, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2018
432 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

The history of contacts between India and Europe tends to be dominated by the British, but Denmark also played a role on the subcontinent in the colonial era. This book offers insight into that history via a close look at one very specific part of it...

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Contemporary Art

Like Andy Warhol

Flatley Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226505572, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, 65 halftones

Scholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonne, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition catalogues and anthologies. But nowhere is there an in-depth scholarly examination of Warhol's oeuvre as a...

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