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Film Studies

Dance of Values Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project

Vogman Elena

ISBN: PB: 9783035801088, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
240 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 30 halftones

Sergei Eisenstein's cinematic adaptation of Karl Marx's "Capital" was never realized, yet it has haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and philosophers to the present day".Dance of Values" aims to conjure the phantom of Eisenstein's...

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Philosophy

Education

Between / Beyond / Hybrid New Essays on Transdisciplinarity

von Sass Hartmut

ISBN: PB: 9783035801743, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

For years now, academics worldwide have been pushing for more interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Yet for all that, the very concept of transdisciplinarity has proved remarkably tough to define, let alone to enact. This book brings together...

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Anthropology

Rites of Passage Second Edition

van Gennep Arnold

ISBN: PB: 9780226629490, ISBN: HB: 9780226629353, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, "The Rites of Passage", has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark b...

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America

We Have Not a Government The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution

Van Cleve George William

ISBN: PB: 9780226641522, ISBN: HB: 9780226480503, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government co...

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Poetry

Bower

Voisine Connie

ISBN: PB: 9780226613789, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? "The Bower" engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Ireland, with her young daughter...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Teachers of the People Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill

Villa Dana

ISBN: PB: 9780226637624, ISBN: HB: 9780226467498, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising...

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Anthropology

Classic Concepts in Anthropology

Valeri Valerio

ISBN: PB: 9780990505082, University of Chicago Press, HAU, October 2018
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-1998) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of...

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Ecology

Way of Coyote Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds

Van Horn Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780226441580, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn't most nature writers. He lives and works...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Palmyra An Irreplaceable Treasure

Veyne Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226600055, ISBN: HB: 9780226427829, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
128 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 13 colour plates

Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential c...

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Evolution

Why the Wheel Is Round Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226599687, ISBN: HB: 9780226381039, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 81 halftones, 64 line drawings

There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates – be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel – a rotational mechanism that accomplishes w...

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