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Contemporary Art

Creative Chicago An Interview Marathon

Obrist Hans Ulrich, Cuddy Alison

ISBN: PB: 9780932171672, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2019
192 pp., 22.8x17.1 cm, 100 colour plates

On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy...

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General

Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World

Ogborn Miles

ISBN: PB: 9780226657684, ISBN: HB: 9780226655925, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in "The Freedom of Speech", across the Anglo-Caribbean world the fundamental distinction b...

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Anthropology

Hunted Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala

O'Neill Kevin Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226624655, ISBN: HB: 9780226624518, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"It's not a process", one pastor insisted, "rehabilitation is a miracle". In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they o...

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Contemporary Art

Let me consider it from here

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548762, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
104 pp., 21.5x17.7 cm, 52 colour plates

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, "Let me consider it from here" features color reproductions of artworks by Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, and Tetsumi Kudo and transcriptions of the audio works of Constance DeJong, alongside newly co...

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Ecology

Wading Right In Discovering the Nature of Wetlands

Owen Koning Catherine, Ashworth Sharon M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554358, ISBN: HB: 9780226554211, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 line drawings

Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scien...

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Jewish Studies

Days of Awe Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians

Omer Atalia

ISBN: PB: 9780226616070, ISBN: HB: 9780226615912, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegi...

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Contemporary Art

Mathias Poledna Substance

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548670, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, April 2019
132 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 93 colour plates

In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this pr...

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Military

Our Latest Longest War Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

O'Connell Aaron B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598567, ISBN: HB: 9780226265650, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. Amer...

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Ecology

Discerning Experts The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy

Oppenheimer Michael, Oreskes Naomi, Jamieson Dale, Brysse Keynyn, O'Reilly Jessica, Shindell Matthew, Wazeck Milena

ISBN: PB: 9780226602011, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 8 line drawings, 11 tables

"Discerning Experts" assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors exp...

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Contemporary Art

Richard Rezac Address

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548731, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
168 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

The title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, "Address", plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a spe...

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