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Philosophy

Neighbor Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface

Zizek Slavoj, Santner Eric L., Reinhard Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226045207, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 line illus.

In "Civilization and Its Discontents", Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself".Let us adopt a naive...

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Law

Learning to Love Form 1040 Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax

Zelenak Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226018928, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
168 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

No one likes paying taxes, much less the process of filing tax returns. For years, would-be reformers have advocated replacing the return-based mass income tax with a flat tax, federal sales tax, or some combination thereof. Congress itself has commi...

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Photography

Media Studies

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage

Zervigon Andres Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226981772, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 134 halftones, 9 colour illus.

Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he assembled images that...

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Philosophy

Plato's Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007748, ISBN: HB: 9780226993355, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
896 pp., 23x15 cm

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial "Plato's Phi...

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America

Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Zakim Michael, Kornblith Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451107, ISBN: HB: 9780226451091, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 4 line illus.

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, "Capitalism Takes Comma...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids

Ziegler Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226982977, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 28x28 cm, 165 colour illus.

Confucius called them the "king of fragrant plants", and John Ruskin condemned them as "prurient apparitions". Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and their sublime seductiveness....

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Architecture

Marion Mahony Reconsidered

Zanten David

ISBN: HB: 9780226850818, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 65 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961) was an American architect and artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world, designer for Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago studio, and an original member of the Prairie School of architecture. Largely...

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History

Passionate Triangle

Zorach Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226989396, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
280 pp., 24x16 cm, 86 halftones, 8 colour illus.

Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe – the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. Renaissance a...

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Political Science

Cultures of Border Control Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

Zaiotti Ruben

ISBN: PB: 9780226977874, ISBN: HB: 9780226977867, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 9 tables, 2 line illus.

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs. Set...

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Christianity

Biography & Memoires

Archbishop Oscar Romero A Disciple Who Revealed the Glory of God

Zynda Damian

ISBN: PB: 9781589662117, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During his lifetime, Archbishop Oscar Romero chose to live the Christian Gospel in a radical way, defending, supporting, and serving the poor, and confronting the oppressive and murderous violence of the Salvadoran dictatorship. As a result, in March...

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