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Christianity

Poetic Relations Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation

Furey Constance M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226434155, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a...

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Performing Arts

Dumb Type Reader

Eckersall Peter, Scheer Edward, Shintaro Fujii

ISBN: PB: 9788763544931, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, August 2017
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 20 colour plates

From the 1980s into the early 2000s, the Japanese group Dumb Type mounted multimedia performances that broke substantial new ground in new media dramaturgy and influenced countless performers to follow. This book gathers essays on the group's work, a...

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Education

What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education

Galt Harpham Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226480817, ISBN: HB: 9780226480787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to...

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Buddhism

Once a Peacock, Once an Actress Twenty-Four Lives of the Bodhisattva from Haribhatta's "Jatakamala"

Haribhatta

ISBN: PB: 9780226485966, ISBN: HB: 9780226485829, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Written in Kashmir around 400 CE, Haribhatta's Jatakamala is a remarkable example of classical Sanskrit literature in a mixture of prose and verse that for centuries was known only in its Tibetan translation. But between 1973 and 2004 a large portion...

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Film Studies

Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies

Roussel Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226486949, ISBN: HB: 9780226486802, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering p...

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Law

Search for Justice The Sri Lanka Papers

Jayawardena Kumari, Pinto-Jayawardena Kishali

ISBN: HB: 9789385932069, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm

At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In "The Search for Justice", a collection of writers an...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Towards an Aesthetics of Production

Egenhofer Sebastion

ISBN: PB: 9783037348857, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
208 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles D...

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Linguistics

Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences Using Hyperproof

Barker-Plummer David, Barwise Jon, Etchemendy John

ISBN: PB: 9781575869513, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2017
227 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 figures

The "Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences" courseware package teaches the principles of analytical reasoning and proof construction using a carefully crafted combination of textbook, desktop, and online materials. This package is sure to be...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2016 Volume 31

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226490199, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2017
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The thirty-first edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" features theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. The first two papers are rigorous and data-driven analyses of the European financial crisis. Th...

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Architecture

St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle

Royt Jan, Kuthan Jiri

ISBN: HB: 9788024631295, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
550 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 315 colour plates, 25 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle" is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemian kings and to this day is a leading Christian cathedral,...

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