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Philosophy

Critique of Freedom The Central Problem of Modernity

Hoffe Otfried

ISBN: HB: 9780226465906, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Hoffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Hoffe addresses a set of complex questions concerning the possibility of political justice and eq...

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Philosophy

History

Cosmic Zoom Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation

Horton Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9780226742441, ISBN: HB: 9780226742304, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames announces itself as "A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe", and in it, we see two people enjoying a picnic on a sunny day before the view zooms up and away to show the park where t...

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Pharmacy

White Market Drugs Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America

Herzberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226731889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 4 line drawings

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fue...

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Music

Everyone Loves Live Music A Theory of Performance Institutions

Holt Fabian

ISBN: PB: 9780226738543, ISBN: HB: 9780226738406, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 5 tables

Every year, millions of music fans come from far and wide to swarm parks and arenas to hear their favorite bands at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into g...

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Mammals

Chimpanzees in Context A Comparative Perspective on Chimpanzee Behavior, Cognition, Conservation, and Welfare

Hopper Lydia M., Ross Stephen R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226727981, ISBN: HB: 9780226727844, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
752 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones, 44 tables

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century. In this book, rising and veteran scholars take a fascinating com...

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Biography & Memoires

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality

Hope Cleves Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...

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Poetry

Swale

Hutchcraft Allison

ISBN: PB: 9781936970681, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection is named for a "swale", a shallow channel used to direct the flow of rainwater. Similarly, Swale looks outward to the natural world and directs its focus inward to the land...

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Literary Criticism

Coming To Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England

Harrison Timothy M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226725123, ISBN: HB: 9780226725093, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea change in the English seventeenth century, when, over the course of a half century, "conscience" made...

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Philosophy

Value, Conflict, and Order Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Hall Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780226718316, ISBN: HB: 9780226718286, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, dr...

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Earth Sciences

Coast to Explore Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661810, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
338 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 colour plates

Coasts have always enchanted us with their wild beauty. Coast to Explore offers an accessible guide to what we see when we look at a coastline: the wave-cut rock cliffs, sea caves, and sea stacks, as well as sand and gravel beaches and coastal dunes....

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