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Interpretation and Social Knowledge On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences

Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226706740, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
216 pp., 22x14 cm, 12 line illus.

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. "Interpretation and...

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Anthropology

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Cultural Evolution How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

Mesoudi Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226520445, ISBN: HB: 9780226520438, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 11 line illus.

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian...

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Nature

Hybrid The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Kingsbury Noel

ISBN: PB: 9780226437132, ISBN: HB: 9780226437040, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
512 pp., 23x15 cm

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrot...

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America

War Stories Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North

Clarke Frances M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108629, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 7 halftones

The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism, as most people continued to portray the war in high...

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Music

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I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers

Clawson Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226109596, ISBN: HB: 9780226109589, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 22.4x15 cm

The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn't performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings whe...

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Literary Criticism

Conflagration of Community Fiction before and after Auschwitz

Miller J. Hillis

ISBN: PB: 9780226527222, ISBN: HB: 9780226527215, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm

"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric".The Conflagration of Community" challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extrem...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Ion Grigorescu In the Body of the Victim

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788392404415, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
312 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 177 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The book "Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim" is an attempt to read the works of one of the most charismatic and original artists from the former Eastern bloc, who until 1989 worked in relative isolation, and whose ar...

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Contemporary Art

1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change

Dziewanska Marta, Bishop Claire

ISBN: PB: 9788392404408, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
504 pp., 23x18 cm, 278 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change" is a selection of texts and presentations from the seminar "1968-1989" organized in Warsaw, July 2008, by the Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Claire Bishop. The...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Alina Szapocznikow Awkward Objects

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788392404460, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
288 pp., 19x14 cm, 85 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The volume entitled, "Alina Szapocznikow" is a collection of materials from the international conference "Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations". (May 15-16, 2009), which accompanied the exhibition organised...

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Contemporary Art

As Soon As. Open My Eyes. See a Film Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s

Janevski Ana

ISBN: PB: 9788392404439, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
344 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 120 halftones, 40 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! "As soon as I open my eyes I see a film – Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s", edited by Ana Janevski, discussed the key moments in the history of the Yugoslav art scene. In the late 60s and 70s, artists rejected...

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