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Christianity

Lives of Objects Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

Kotrosits Maia

ISBN: PB: 9780226707587, ISBN: HB: 9780226707440, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Our lives are filled with objects – ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When these are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they change. An object out...

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Gender Studies

Queer Budapest, 1873-1961

Kurimay Anita

ISBN: PB: 9780226705798, ISBN: HB: 9780226705651, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the "Pearl of the Danube", it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class...

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Physics

Quantum Legacies Dispatches from an Uncertain World

Kaiser David

ISBN: HB: 9780226698052, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 47 halftones

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that s...

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Poetry

Scatterplot

Koehn David

ISBN: PB: 9781632430779, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

"Scatterplot" navigates a vast landscape of imagination through variations on being lost and found. David Koehn's investigative journeys allow space for the failures of consciousness and gaps in the knowable as he traverses a sensory terrain through...

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Poetry

Any God Will Do

Konchan Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9780887486531, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"There are no machine guns, or cameras, here". "Any God Will Do" is a collection that investigates the lines between worldliness and asceticism, belief and delusion, chance and design, desire and its transcendence. Internal and end rhyme structure t...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Volume 1

Kotchen Matthew J., Stock James H., Wolfram Catherine D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711171, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Mammals

Reference

Manual of the Mammalia An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"

Kelt Douglas A., Patton James L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226533001, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings

The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...

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Anthropology

Participant A Century of Participation in Four Stories

Kelty Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226666761, ISBN: HB: 9780226666624, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings

Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposi...

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Fiction

Respectable Woman

Kire Easterine

ISBN: HB: 9789385932472, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The Second World War has just ended. The Japanese have departed. In Nagaland in northeast India – one of the key theaters of the battle – political unrest and tremendous social changes have generated new social problems. For returning soldiers and ot...

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Computer Science & Internet

Knuth par Knuth

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781684000586, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
226 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The interviews in this volume form the nearest thing possible to an autobiography of eminent computer scientist Donald E. Knuth. Based on the English-language Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth, also published by CSLI Publications, this book bri...

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