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Sacred Mandates Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan

Brook Timothy, van Walt van Praag Michael, Boltjes Miek

ISBN: PB: 9780226562766, ISBN: HB: 9780226562629, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning".Sacred Mandates", edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, red...

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Performing Arts

Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Philosophy

Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All

Samuelson Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226407081, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward". Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition – which leads to a question that has proved just as inescapable throughout the centuries: Why? Why do we...

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Fiction

Saga of Satisar

Chandrakanta, Kaul Ranjana

ISBN: PB: 9789381017630, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 24

Klick Jonathan, Helland Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780226438184, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Supreme Court Economic Review" is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary law and economics series with a particular focus on economic and social science analysis of judicial decision making, institutional analysis of law and legal st...

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Dogs

Secrets of the Snout The Dog's Incredible Nose

Rosell Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226536361, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Dogs and humans have worked side by side for thousands of years, and over the millennia we've come to depend upon our pooches as hunters, protectors, and faithful companions. But when it comes to the extraordinary quality of man's best friend which w...

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Philosophy

Serious Larks The Philosophy of Ted Cohen

Cohen Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780226511269, ISBN: HB: 9780226511122, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of Life

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226540917, ISBN: HB: 9780226266015, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters – these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard...

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Political Science

State Constitutional Politics Governing by Amendment in the American States

Dinan John

ISBN: PB: 9780226532813, ISBN: HB: 9780226532783, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a re...

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Christianity

Story of Radio Mind A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land

Klassen Pamela E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226552736, ISBN: HB: 9780226552569, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 57 halftones

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet – Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist – announced a psychic channel by which minds could te...

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