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Education

Curren Randall, Dorn Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226552392, ISBN: HB: 9780226552255, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating nationa...

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General

Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives

Ferdowsian Hope

ISBN: HB: 9780226475936, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few things get our compassion flowing like the sight of suffering. But our response is often shaped by our ability to empathize with others. Some people respond to the suffering of only humans or to one person's plight more than another's. Others rea...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry in a World of Things Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis

Eisendrath Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226516615, ISBN: HB: 9780226516585, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the...

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Europe

Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries Heritage and Development Strategies

Klusakova Lud'a

ISBN: PB: 9788024636450, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Always in the shadow of their more famous urban neighbors, small towns are consistently overlooked in historical research, especially in Europe. This book investigates the ramifications of...

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Gardening

Discoveries in the Garden

Nardi James B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226531663, ISBN: HB: 9780226531526, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones, 30 line drawings, 3 tables

Every square inch of soil is rich with energy and life, and nowhere is this more evident than in the garden. At the tips of our trowels, a sun-driven world of microbes, insects, roots, and stems awaits – and it is a world no one knows better than Jam...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

Boudalis Georgios

ISBN: PB: 9781941792124, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
200 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones, 45 line drawings

The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity".The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity" examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this t...

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Philosophy

Moral Meaning of Nature Nietzsche's Darwinian Religion and Its Critics

Woodford Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539898, ISBN: HB: 9780226539751, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? "The Moral Meaning of Nature" sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an...

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Anthropology

Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles

Mohan Urmila

ISBN: PB: 9781941792131, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
220 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 100 colour plates

Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in using visual anthropological techniques to study the aesthetics of bodily motion in Bali. What is less well known is that they also collected textiles, paintings, puppets, and carving...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Young Descartes Nobility, Rumor, and War

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226462967, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am". But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of h...

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Ecology

Entangled People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay

Sigman Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9781602233485, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 4 halftones

Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth – from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon – in Alaska'...

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