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Philosophy

Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond

Gere Cathy

ISBN: HB: 9780226501857, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plot...

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Indexes A Chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition)

ISBN: PB: 9780226524856, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Europe

Cities Contested Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s

Baumeister Martin, Schott Dieter, Bonomo Bruno

ISBN: PB: 9783593506975, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2017
420 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...

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Anthropology

Peru: Medio Putumayo-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 28

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9780982841969, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, October 2017
522 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates, 14 halftones, 12 maps

In February 2016, a multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities of a remote area in northern Amazonian Peru, along the Putumayo, Algodon, and Mutun river...

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Entomology

Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Munz Tania

ISBN: PB: 9780226526508, ISBN: HB: 9780226020860, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 7 line drawings

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators – and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, b...

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Anthropology

Islam

Ethnologia Europaea 46:1 Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9788763544870, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm

In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...

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Poetry

Who Reads Poetry 50 Views from "Poetry" Magazine

Sasaki Fred, Share Don

ISBN: HB: 9780226504766, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map

Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, "Poetry" magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From Here", which has invited readers "from outside the...

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What Editors Do The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

Ginna Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226299976, ISBN: HB: 9780226299839, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly unders...

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America

Education

School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Steffes Tracy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226435305, ISBN: HB: 9780226772097, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife", wrote John Dewey in his classic work "The School and Society". In "School, Society, and State", Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the con...

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History of Art

Experience

Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780932171634, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, October 2017
216 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 72 colour illus.

In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience", Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, f...

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