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History of Art

Media Studies

Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison

Habib Anjum Zamarud

ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...

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Education

Philosophy

Education and Equality

Allen Danielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...

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Women Studies

Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

Kolas Ashild

ISBN: HB: 9789385932304, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by schola...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 52, 2017

Baetjer Katharine, Kornhauser Elisabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226536842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

The "Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a possible Cypriot origin for an Assyrian stone mixing bowl in the C...

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General

Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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Philosophy

Media Studies

What Philosophy Wants from Images

Rodowick D. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Other Transatlantic Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Dziewanska Marta, Roelstraete Dieter, Winograd Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9788364177422, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2018
250 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "The Other Transatlantic" is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin Amer...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 24

Funakoshi Kenshi

ISBN: PB: 9781684000241, ISBN: HB: 9781684000258, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both language...

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Education

Educational Goods Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

Brighouse Harry, Ladd Helen F., Loeb Susanna, Swift Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226514178, ISBN: HB: 9780226514031, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings

We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education – what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In "Educational...

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