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Gershom Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
ISBN: PB: 9781512601138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zi...
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Hierarchy Perspectives for Ecological Complexity
ISBN: PB: 9780226489681, ISBN: HB: 9780226489544, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables
Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals...
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Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...
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Scale
ISBN: PB: 9780932171597, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 80 colour plates
Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially dematerialized art, critical and historical research dealing with scale – both within the American critical t...
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Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America
ISBN: HB: 9780226480336, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class c...
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Letters on Ethics To Lucilius
ISBN: PB: 9780226528434, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
528 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence".Letters on Ethics" includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy, discu...
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Crime and Justice, Volume 45 Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226440804, ISBN: HB: 9780226440774, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives" is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julia...
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How Lifeworlds Work Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being
ISBN: PB: 9780226491967, ISBN: HB: 9780226491820, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In "How Lifeworlds Work", J...
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To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria
ISBN: PB: 9780226491653, ISBN: HB: 9780226491516, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Refrains about financial hardship are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed through the idiom "to be a man is not a one-day job". But while men talk constantly about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns abo...
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Final Story Science, Myth, and Beginnings
ISBN: HB: 9780226476124, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Popular science readers embrace epics – the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wi...
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