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Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...

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Literary Criticism

History

Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Morgan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Albert Einstein's Bright Ideas

Morlot Frederic, Ramstein Anne-Margot

ISBN: HB: 9783037349359, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour thoughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Reference

Write No Matter What Advice for Academics

Jensen Joli

ISBN: PB: 9780226461700, ISBN: HB: 9780226461670, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book – or even steady journal articles – may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it rea...

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Music

Beethoven's Symphonies Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226453880, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 18 halftones

In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the...

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Europe

Travel

Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Diogenes the Dog-Man

Marchand Yan, Sorel Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9783037349335, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Jewish Studies

Sabbatian Heresy Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity

Maciejko Pawel

ISBN: PB: 9781512600520, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626-1676) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in Judaism that spread across Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in wh...

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Children's Books

Fiction

"Catarina the Wise" and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales

Pitre Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780226462790, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again... So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may...

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Philosophy

History

Myth of Disenchantment Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Josephson-Storm Jason A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226403366, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 figures

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppr...

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