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Political Science

Sing the Rage Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

Chakravarti Sonali

ISBN: HB: 9780226119984, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In "Sing the Rage", Sonali Chakravarti wrestles with this question through...

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Linguistics

Core and Periphery Data-Driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. Sag

Hofmeister Philip, Norcliffe Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9781575867212, ISBN: HB: 9781575867205, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Core and the Periphery" is a collection of papers inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013), written to commemorate his many contributions to the field. Sag was professor of linguistics at Stanford University from 1979 to 201...

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Poetry

Reel to Reel

Shapiro Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226110639, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
88 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Reel to Reel", Alan Shapiro's twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the c...

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Evolution

Amazing Nature

Oldest Living Things in World

Sussman Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226057507, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
170 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour plates, 5 halftones

"The Oldest Living Things in the World" is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph...

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Political Science

Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems A Comparative Approach

Green-Pedersen Christoffer, Walgrave Stefaan

ISBN: PB: 9780226128306, ISBN: HB: 9780226128276, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 figures, 11 tables

Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of atten...

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History

Victorian Scientific Naturalism Community, Identity, Continuity

Lightman Bernard, Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226109503, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 table

"Victorian Scientific Naturalism" examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of "The Origin of Species", wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professi...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

Posthumous Love Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England

Targoff Ramie

ISBN: HB: 9780226789590, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven – Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this...

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Cartoon Art

Outside the Box Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists

Chute Hillary L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226099446, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

We are living in a golden age of cartoon art. Never before has graphic storytelling been so prominent or garnered such respect: critics and readers alike agree that contemporary cartoonists are creating some of the most innovative and exciting work i...

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Mammals

How Animals Grieve

King Barbara J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155203, ISBN: HB: 9780226436944, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of ot...

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Gardening

Gardening with Perennials Lessons from Chicago's Lurie Garden

Kingsbury Noel

ISBN: PB: 9780226437453, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
216 pp., 19x14.6 cm, 86 colour plates, 1 line drawing

For gardeners, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. Perennial enthusiasts around the world might be surprised to find their muse in the middle of a bustling city. Lurie Garden, a nearly three-acre botanic garden in the center of Chic...

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