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Philosophy

Plotinus Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice

Clark Stephen R. L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565057, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian and Muslim theologians,...

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Credulity A Cultural History of US Mesmerism

Ogden Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226532332, ISBN: HB: 9780226532165, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the...

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Anthropology

Politics of Custom Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa

Comaroff John L., Comaroff Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226510934, ISBN: HB: 9780226510767, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are instead a rising force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy...

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America

Crossing Parish Boundaries Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954

Neary Timothy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565989, ISBN: HB: 9780226388762, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialis...

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Political Science

Price of Prestige Conspicuous Consumption in International Relations

Gilady Lilach

ISBN: HB: 9780226433202, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If wars are costly and risky to both sides, why do they occur? Why engage in an arms race when it's clear that increasing one's own defense expenditures will only trigger a similar reaction by the other side, leaving both countries just as insecure –...

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Literary Criticism

Danger of Romance Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions

Sullivan Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226540269, ISBN: HB: 9780226540122, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular roma...

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Political Science

Public Policy A Comprehensive Introduction

Potucek Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635569, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potucek draws...

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Anthropology

Language and Prehistory of the Indo-European Peoples A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

Hyllested Adam, Nielsen Whitehead Benedicte, Olander Thomas, Olsen Birgit Anette

ISBN: HB: 9788763545310, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2018
350 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 4 colour plates, 7 halftones, 2 maps, 3 line drawings

Our knowledge of neolithic and bronze age Europe is growing rapidly, and this book offers a major contribution to our understanding of the language and history of the peoples of that period. The editors have taken a deliberately cross-disciplinary ap...

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History

Restless Clock A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

Riskin Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226528267, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 51 halftones

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is...

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Philosophy

Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism

Boudry Maarten, Pigliucci Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9780226498140, ISBN: HB: 9780226498003, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits – about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science over all other ways of k...

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