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Architecture

Building Histories The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi

Rajagopalan Mrinalini

ISBN: HB: 9780226283470, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 51 halftones, 1 table

"Building Histories" offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi – the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex – tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinali...

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Ancient World

Classicisms

Norman Larry F., Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573572, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2017
184 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 105 colour plates

As an aesthetic ideal, classicism is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum. As a result, it is sometimes viewed as rigid, outdated, or stodgy. But in actuality, cla...

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Media Studies

Linguistics

Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create Digital Institutions

Hodgkin Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226438214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool – it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis...

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Philosophy

On Knowing – The Social Sciences

McKeon Richard P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226340210, ISBN: HB: 9780226340180, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 34 tables

As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy – across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics – and s...

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World

Extraordinary Ordinariness Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015

Wendt Simon

ISBN: PB: 9783593506173, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
294 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 25 halftones

Everyday heroes and heroines – ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats – have received only scant attention in heroism scholarship. While scholars have devoted thousands of pages to war heroes, heroic leaders, a...

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General

Thinking Through Methods A Social Science Primer

Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226431727, ISBN: HB: 9780226431697, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 2 tables

Sociological research is hard enough already – you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desp...

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Philosophy

Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226478531, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II" is the latest entry in the University of Chicago Press's ambitious series of translations of Jacques Derrida's previously unpublished written lectures. Picking up where the previous volume left off, "Volume II...

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Literary Criticism

Legal Epic "Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law

Chapman Alison A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226435138, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, "The Legal Epic" is the first book to s...

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Law

Law Beyond the State Pasts and Futures

Hofmann Rainer, Kadelbach Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593506500, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Law beyond the State" brings together contributions by renowned experts on international and European Union law to celebrate the centennial of Goethe?Universitat Frankfurt. The essays explore Frankfurt's contribution to the development of internatio...

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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet

Holl Ute

ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones

Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...

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