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Fiction

Great Prince Died A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky

Wolfe Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226260648, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
416 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacan, Mexico. He died the next day. In "The Great Prince Died", Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized acco...

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Nature

Ecology

Our Once and Future Planet Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century

Woodworth Paddy

ISBN: PB: 9780226333403, ISBN: HB: 9780226907390, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it's hard not to focus on the...

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Middle East

Reading Clocks, Alla Turca Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire

Wishnitzer Avner

ISBN: HB: 9780226257723, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was incr...

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History

Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment

Whitmer Kelly Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226243771, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientif...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Lost Second Book of Aristotle's "Poetics"

Watson Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226274119, ISBN: HB: 9780226875088, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
336 pp., 23x15 cm

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics – ancient, medieval, or modern – the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. In the "Poetics", Aristotle writes that he wi...

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Africa

Unpopular Sovereignty Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization

White Luise

ISBN: PB: 9780226235196, ISBN: HB: 9780226235059, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to...

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Philosophy

Rhythm of Thought Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty

Wiskus Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226274256, ISBN: HB: 9780226030920, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 20 line illus.

Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance – so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in "The Rhythm of Thought". Holding the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, the painting...

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Poetry

Children's Books

D is for Dog Team D is for Denali

Waldman Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780981675817, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
60 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 5 line illus.

For nearly fifteen years, writer and musician Ken Waldman has been touring as Alaska's Fiddling Poet, combining old-time Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry and Alaskan storytelling. The book-and-CD set "D is for Dog Team" is his...

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Contemporary Art

Doris Salcedo

Widholm Julie Rodrigues, Grynsztejn Madeleine

ISBN: HB: 9780226244587, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
240 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 105 colour plates

A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris Salcedo evoke the significance of bearing witness and...

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Photography

Diary/Landscape

Welling James

ISBN: HB: 9780226204123, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
160 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 126 halftones

For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the material and conceptual possibilities of photography".Diary/Landscape" – the first mature body of work by this important contemporary artist – set the framework for his subsequent invest...

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