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Law

Rights of the Defenseless Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America

Pearson Susan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226760605, ISBN: HB: 9780226652016, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
280 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 14 halftones

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in...

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Philosophy

Improvising Improvisation From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226759272, ISBN: HB: 9780226452623, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide r...

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Philosophy

Idealization and the Aims of Science

Potochnik Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780226759449, ISBN: HB: 9780226507057, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 6 tables

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function – if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. "Idealization and the Aims of S...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Standing between Life and Extinction Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts

Propst David, Williams Jack, Bestgen Kevin, Hoagstrom Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226694474, ISBN: HB: 9780226694337, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 22 halftones

North American deserts – lands of little water – have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to insects and mollusks. But with European settlement, water extraction, resource exploitation, and invasive species set many of...

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Political Science

Campaign Finance and American Democracy What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters

Primo David M., Milyo Jeffrey D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226712949, ISBN: HB: 9780226712802, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 53 tables

In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial "Citizens United" decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve people's faith in the election process, i...

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Cartography

Indies of the Setting Sun How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West

Padron Ricardo

ISBN: HB: 9780226455679, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Narratives of Europe's sixteenth-century westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct land mass, a continent separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as new ground ripe for transatlantic colonialism. But this geo...

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Music

Both from the Ears and Mind Thinking about Music in Early Modern England

Phyllis Austern Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780226701592, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 25 halftones

"Both from the Ears and Mind" offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical perf...

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Philosophy

Socrates Founding Political Philosophy in Xenophon's "Economist", "Symposium", and "Apology"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226642475, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The oeuvre of the Greek historian Xenophon, whose works stand with those of Plato as essential accounts of the teachings of Socrates, has seen a new surge of attention after decades in the shadows. And no one has done more in recent years to spearhea...

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America

Nature of the Future Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North

Pawley Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780226693835, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. "The Nature of the Future" aims to rema...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Dangerous Earth What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More

Prager Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226541693, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 24 halftones

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can als...

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