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Ecology

Phylogenetic Ecology A History, Critique, and Remodeling

Swenson Nathan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671505, ISBN: HB: 9780226671475, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 10 tables

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they have come to discover the field's power to illuminate present ecological patterns and processes. Ecolo...

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History of Art

Michelangelo's Painting Selected Essays

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226482262, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 124 colour plates, 122 halftones

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemp...

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Literary Criticism

Arts of Dying Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

Smith D. Vance

ISBN: PB: 9780226640990, ISBN: HB: 9780226640853, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory – but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone...

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Film Studies

Cinemachines An Essay on Media and Method

Stewart Garrett

ISBN: PB: 9780226656731, ISBN: HB: 9780226656564, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 1 line drawing

The hero stands on stage in high-definition 3-D while doubled on a crude pixel screen in "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk". Alien ships leave Earth by dissolving at the conclusion of "Arrival". An illusory death spiral in "Vertigo" transitions abrup...

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Ecology

Emergence of Ecosocialism Collected Essays by Joel Kovel

Saul Quincy

ISBN: PB: 9781940939957, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Emergence of Ecosocialism" is the first book by the author, activist and scholar Joel Kovel. Kovel led an expansive political and intellectual life from the mid-1960s until his death in the spring of 2018: in addition to being a foundational eco...

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Culture Studies

Polonica

Necroperformance Cultural Reconstructions of the War Body

Sajewska Dorota

ISBN: PB: 9783035801910, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
448 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In "Necroperformance", Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements. Und...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Cao Jun Hymns to Nature

Sallis John

ISBN: PB: 9781892850300, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2019
125 pp., 35.6x30.5 cm, 64 colour plates, 8 halftones

No contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely in China, as well as at the Louvre. Accompanying an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston Col...

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Business & Economics

Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior

Schlenker Wolfram

ISBN: HB: 9780226619804, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 130 figures, 57 tables

Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution. At the same time, inflation-adjusted agricultural commodity prices have been trending downward as increases in supply outpace the growth of...

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Cartography

America

Atlas of Boston History

Seasholes Nancy S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss on Hegel

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226640686, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particu...

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