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Literary Criticism

Five Words Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Greene Roland

ISBN: PB: 9780226709710, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over t...

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Cartography

When Maps Become the World

Gronfeldt Winther Rasmus

ISBN: PB: 9780226674728, ISBN: HB: 9780226669670, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 37 halftones

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our re...

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Fiction

Shop on Main Street

Grosman Ladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024640228, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
150 pp., 19x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, "The Shop on Main Street" is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Nietzsche Reiner Schurmann Lecture Notes

Guercio Francesco, Heitz Michael

ISBN: PB: 9783035800548, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2020
160 pp., 22.2x14 cm

Nietzsche praised Kant for having "annihilated Socratism", for exhibiting all ideals as essentially unattainable, and for having exposed himself to the despair of truth – all essential traits Nietzsche claimed for his own thinking. At the same time,...

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Political Science

Narrowing the Channel The Politics of Regulatory Protection in International Trade

Gulotty Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226669366, ISBN: HB: 9780226669229, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 figures, 21 tables

While large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs, th...

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America

Christianity

Imagining Judeo-Christian America Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy

Gaston Healan K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226663852, ISBN: HB: 9780226663715, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the...

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America

Fire, Pestilence, and Death St. Louis, 1849

Gordon Christopher Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781883982935, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones

In 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic...

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Photography

After the Crisis Contemporary States of Photography

Grau Donatien, Wiesner Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783035802023, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
160 pp., 18.6x11.8 cm, 20 halftones

"After the Crisis" offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Ethics of Space Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England

Grohmann Steph

ISBN: PB: 9781912808281, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2019
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to fin...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry Channeling Wittgenstein

Gunnell John G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226661278, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive pract...

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