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Literary Criticism

On War and Writing

Hynes Samuel

ISBN: HB: 9780226468785, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers met...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses Current Knowledge and Challenges

Haltiwanger John, Hurst Erik, Miranda Javier, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226454078, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings, 121 tables

Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company l...

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Biography & Memoires

Perfect Wave More Essays on Art and Democracy

Hickey Dave

ISBN: HB: 9780226333137, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out – he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just abou...

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History of Art

Nature's Mirror Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape

Howe Jeffery

ISBN: PB: 9781892850294, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2017
225 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 105 colour plates, 75 halftones

Since the Renaissance, art in Belgium and the Netherlands has been known for its innovations in realistic representation and its fluency in symbolism. New market forces and artistic concerns fueled the development of landscape as an independent genre...

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Buddhism

Once a Peacock, Once an Actress Twenty-Four Lives of the Bodhisattva from Haribhatta's "Jatakamala"

Haribhatta

ISBN: PB: 9780226485966, ISBN: HB: 9780226485829, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Written in Kashmir around 400 CE, Haribhatta's Jatakamala is a remarkable example of classical Sanskrit literature in a mixture of prose and verse that for centuries was known only in its Tibetan translation. But between 1973 and 2004 a large portion...

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Birds

Peregrine Returns The Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor Recovery

Hennen Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226465425, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 159 colour plates

Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are now well known for adapting from life on rocky cliffs to a...

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Fiction

All Passion Spent

Hina Zaheda

ISBN: HB: 9789385932199, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago; one from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had previously fled home to partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2016

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226490847, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions".The Supreme Court Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Su...

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Ecology

America

Coast Beyond Compare Coastal Geology and Ecology of Southern Alaska

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661841, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
350 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 183 colour plates, 9 halftones

The southern coast of Alaska stretches over six hundred miles, its sweeping crescent studded with glaciers and beaches that connect temperate rainforest to frozen islands. While its soaring beauty attracts thousands of visitors a year, it also hides...

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Philosophy

Law

Artistic License The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation

Hudson Hick Darren

ISBN: PB: 9780226460246, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The art scene today is one of appropriation – of remixing, reusing, and recombining the works of other artists. From the musical mash-ups of Girl Talk to the pop-culture borrowings of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, it's clear that the artistic landscap...

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