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Literary Criticism

Teaching Archive A New History for Literary Study

Sagner Buurma Rachel, Heffernan Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226736136, ISBN: HB: 9780226735948, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. In Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's literary history, we watch T. S. Eliot and his working-class students revise...

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Music

American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century

Spitzer John

ISBN: PB: 9780226756059, ISBN: HB: 9780226769769, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
504 pp., 25x22 cm, 28 halftones, 14 tables

Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this...

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Linguistics

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Languages of Scandinavia Seven Sisters of the North

Sanders Ruth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226759753, ISBN: HB: 9780226493893, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables

From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understo...

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Philosophy

Modern Philosophies of the Will

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035803075, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, December 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the lenses of Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, this edited volume traces the development of the relation between the will and the law as self-given. Modern Philosophies of the Will explores a variety of topics including: the ontological turn i...

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Architecture

Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

Schrenk Lisa D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226318943, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 179 halftones, 1 table

Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized his iconic design ideology. Here, architecture hi...

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Evolution

Dinner with Darwin Food, Drink, and Evolution

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226760094, ISBN: HB: 9780226245393, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 6 line drawings

What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to no...

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Contemporary Art

Escape From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions

Schutter David

ISBN: HB: 9780226461199, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 19 halftones

Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction – a series of abstract draw...

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Anthropology

Health and Disease in the Neolithic Lengyel Culture

Smrcka Vaclav

ISBN: PB: 9788024645148, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
396 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Lasting from around 4800 to 4000 BCE, the Lengyel culture helped usher in the Copper Age in Central Europe with the rise of mining, craft production, and the trading of copper and obsidian...

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Music

Spirit of This Place How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit

Summers Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226756196, ISBN: HB: 9780226095103, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is un...

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Sport

Bicycling through Paradise Historical Rides Around Cincinnati

Smythe Kathleen, Hanlin Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781947602755, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, November 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Bicycling Through Paradise is a collection of twenty historically themed cycling tours broken into 10-mile segments centered around Cincinnati, Ohio. Written by two longtime cyclists – one a professor of history and one an architect – the book is an...

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