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Law

Supreme Court Review 2019

Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R., Driver Justin

ISBN: HB: 9780226708560, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Contemporary Art

Tale of Today Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi

Sumah Kekeli

ISBN: PB: 9780578657356, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

The second exhibition in the Driehaus Museum's initiative to bring contemporary art into the Gilded Age era Nickerson Mansion focuses on two Chicago-based artists: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi, whose works engage our expectations of the 1883 buildin...

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Literary Criticism

Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays

Sergi Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226709376, ISBN: HB: 9780226709239, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables

Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyan...

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Philosophy

Georg Simmel Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Simmel Georg

ISBN: PB: 9780226621098, ISBN: HB: 9780226620930, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influentia...

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History

Making Spirit Matter Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France

Sommer McGrath Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226699820, ISBN: HB: 9780226699790, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 1 table

The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath's "Making Spirit Matter" s...

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History of Art

Renaissance and Baroque Art Selected Essays

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226668727, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
416 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 105 colour plates, 140 halftone

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 ranging from old masters to contemporar...

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Political Science

Race to the Bottom How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics

Stephens-Dougan LaFleur

ISBN: PB: 9780226698984, ISBN: HB: 9780226698847, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

African American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized "dog whistles", especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and fr...

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Education

Reference

Institutional Literacies Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication

Selber Stuart A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226699349, ISBN: HB: 9780226699202, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 2 line drawings

Information technologies have become an integral part of writing and communication courses, shaping the ways students and teachers think about and do their work. But, too often, teachers and other educational stakeholders take a passive or simply rea...

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Ecology

Evolution

Catastrophic Thinking Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

Sepkoski David

ISBN: HB: 9780226348612, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded – by scientists, by the media, by popular culture – of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater...

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Christianity

Biography & Memoires

Tomaڑ Spidlik A Theological Life

Sladek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024643793, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2020
130 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Tomaڑ Spidlik: A Theological Life" offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of the enigmatic Czech theologian. In part one, Karel Sladek explores Špid...

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