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Land of Milk and Butter How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry

Lampe Markus, Sharp Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226549507, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 29 line drawings, 25 tables

How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today? Historians have often pointed to developments from the late nineteenth century, when small peasant farmers worked together through agricultural c...

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Writing Fiction A Guide to Narrative Craft (Tenth Edition)

Burroway Janet, Stuckey-French Elizabeth, Stuckey-French Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226616698, ISBN: HB: 9780226616551, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

More than 250,000 copies sold! A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and "Writing Fiction". Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America,...

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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Second Edition)

Belcher Wendy Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226499918, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

"Wow. No one ever told me this!" Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics on how to write journal articles. Scholars know they must publish, but few have been told how to do so. So Bel...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy

Schwartz Daniel B.

ISBN: PB: 9781584657125, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632-1677), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in...

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History

Life on Display Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

Rader Karen A., Cain Victoria E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598734, ISBN: HB: 9780226079660, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, "Life on Display" uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle p...

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Contemporary Art

Aesthetics at Large Volume 1: Art, Ethics, Politics

de Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226546735, ISBN: HB: 9780226546568, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgment", Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of "Aesthetics at Large", is as relevant to the appreciation of art today as it was to the enjoyment of beautiful nature in 1790. Going against the grain of all aesthe...

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Philosophy

Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" A Philosophical Guide

Ivry Alfred L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226637594, ISBN: HB: 9780226395128, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary – even contradictory – statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guard...

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Poetry

Against Translation

Shapiro Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226613505, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation – not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what...

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Women Studies

Indian Feminisms Individual and Collective Journeys

Kathuria Poonam, Bhaiya Abha

ISBN: HB: 9789385932021, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only for the essential work they do but for the successes they've had. This collection of essays, written by well-known activ...

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Architecture

Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves

Galster George C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226599854, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 tables

Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define them – how do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their r...

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