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Pursuit of Harmony Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community
ISBN: HB: 9780226496979, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God", a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superio...
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From Hospitality to Grace A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
ISBN: PB: 9780986132520, University of Chicago Press, HAU, December 2017
410 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus" brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes...
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How Places Make Us Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780226361253, ISBN: HB: 9780226361116, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 11 tables
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this no...
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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China
ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables
In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...
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Normality A Critical Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...
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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve
ISBN: PB: 9780226527451, ISBN: HB: 9780226015842, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
264 pp., 23x15 cm
Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft and meaning. In "Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ag...
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From Sight to Light The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics
ISBN: PB: 9780226528571, ISBN: HB: 9780226174761, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 58 line drawings
From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its...
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Across the Shaman's River John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North
ISBN: PB: 9781602233294, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 1 map
"Across the Shaman's River" is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and John Muir. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alas...
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There Was a Whole Collection Made Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
ISBN: HB: 9780935573565, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2017
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 235 colour plates
In 2014, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago received a generous gift from collectors Lester and Betty Guttman: 830 photographs, created by a total of 414 artists, that cover a time period stretching all the way from the early 1800s...
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Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries
ISBN: HB: 9780226514796, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 32 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings
The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself".The Fullness of Time" explores that struggle, and the ch...
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