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Daily Thomas Paine A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age

Paine Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226653518, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis", Paine codified both co...

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Poetry

Take Nothing

Pope Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780887486562, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The poems of "Take Nothing" are embedded in connections to family and landscape, to memory and possibility. They especially explore and distill those indelible, sometimes small, moments that cumulatively shape the arc of a life. These can be as surpr...

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Linguistics

Bantu Applicative Constructions

Pacchiarotti Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781684000593, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
0 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book addresses various shortcomings in definitions of "applicative" when compared to what is actually found across languages and proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, especially relevant to Bantu, a large family of lan...

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Poetry

Very Drunk / Borracho Love Poems & Other Acts of Madness / Poemas de Amor y Otros Actos de Locura

Papoleto Melendez Jesus

ISBN: PB: 9781940939964, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
244 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

This collection of poems by Jesus Papoleto Melendez reads as a poetic autobiography of a hopeless romantic. "Borracho" invites us to find the essence of a man's character laid bare in the foibles of his desire and passionate pursuit of love. Spanning...

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Music

London Voices, 1820-1840 Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories

Parker Roger, Rutherford Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780226670188, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 5 line drawings

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion pla...

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Philosophy

Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

Patton Laurie L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226675985, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Who Owns Religion?" focuses on a period – the late 1980s through the 1990s – when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves honoring through their work. While controversies inv...

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Linguistics

Revisiting the Essential Indexical

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781684000524, ISBN: HB: 9781684000616, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
146 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical". He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions ab...

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General

Europe

Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

Petr Roubal

ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...

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Travel

Education

Prague University Town

Petran Josef, Petranova Lydia

ISBN: PB: 9788024640532, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
216 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 141 colour plates, 1 halftone,

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petran and Lydia Petranova guide us through the history and architecture of Prague's diverse univers...

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Philosophy

Philosophy en noir

Petricek Miroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024638539, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to u...

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