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Distant Early Warning Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226753454, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist – many consider him the founder of media studies – but he was an important theorist of art, too. A near-household name for decades, McLuhan remains a fascinating and even cultish figure i...
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Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism
ISBN: PB: 9780226794921, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the classics and of ancient and modern history. Throughout his career, but especially in the final twenty years of his life, he wrote essays on a variety of...
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Evolution Made to Order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226790862, ISBN: HB: 9780226390086, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate...
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Pulp Empire A Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
ISBN: HB: 9780226350554, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 colour plates, 6 halftones
In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular – and most unfiltered – entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages,...
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Rivall Friendship, by Bridget Manningham
ISBN: PB: 9780866986335, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, June 2021
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The manuscript for Rivall Friendship was first acquired by the Newberry Library in 1937. At the time of the acquisition, the author of this seventeenth-century romance was anonymous. Scholar Jean R. Brink now suggests, based on dating of the manuscri...
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Image Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226782287, ISBN: HB: 9780226782140, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display images. The thr...
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Infinite Repertoire On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea
ISBN: PB: 9780226781020, ISBN: HB: 9780226762845, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings
In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city's major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how d...
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Theory and Reality An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226618654, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour o...
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Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9781940939995, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, June 2021
877 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
This continuation of Gabrielle David's odyssey into the lives and careers of 150 brilliant black women from the eighteenth century to the present brings together biographies of women who blazed uncharted paths alongside powerful photographs that illu...
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Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19
ISBN: PB: 9780226781952, ISBN: HB: 9780226781815, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume In this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Haye...
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