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Poetry

Ancient World

Aeneid

Virgil

ISBN: HB: 9780226450186, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

So begins the "Aeneid", greatest of Western epic poems. Virgil's story of the journey of Aeneas has been a part of our cultural heritage for so many centuries that it's all too easy to lose sight of the poem itself – of its brilliantly cinematic depi...

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General

Social Theory Now

Benzecry Claudio E., Krause Monika, Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226475288, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal "Social Theory Today". Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda cente...

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Business & Economics

Political Standards Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

Ramanna Karthik

ISBN: PB: 9780226528090, ISBN: HB: 9780226210742, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 10 tables

Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the det...

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Philosophy

Archive Fever A Freudian Impression

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226502359, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In "Archive Fever", Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology – fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationshi...

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Philosophy

Gift of Death Literature in Secret (Second Edition)

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226502977, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

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Cookbooks

Jewish Studies

German-Jewish Cookbook Recipes and History of a Cuisine

Rossmer Gropman Gabrielle, Gropman Sonya

ISBN: HB: 9781611688733, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes differ from more familiar Jewish food, they will be a d...

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History of Art

Nature's Mirror Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape

Howe Jeffery

ISBN: PB: 9781892850294, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2017
225 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 105 colour plates, 75 halftones

Since the Renaissance, art in Belgium and the Netherlands has been known for its innovations in realistic representation and its fluency in symbolism. New market forces and artistic concerns fueled the development of landscape as an independent genre...

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Political Science

Rule Breaking and Political Imagination

Shepsle Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226473215, ISBN: HB: 9780226473185, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

"Imagination may be thought of as a 'work-around'. It is a resourceful tactic to 'undo' a rule by creating a path around it without necessarily defying it... Transgression, on the other hand, is rule breaking. There is no pretense of reinterpretation...

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Poetry

Children with Enemies

Dischell Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226498591, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell's fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, p...

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Christianity

Consuming Religion

Lofton Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226482095, ISBN: HB: 9780226481937, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays ex...

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