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Political Science

Hobbes's Kingdom of Light A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy

Stauffer Devin

ISBN: PB: 9780226760124, ISBN: HB: 9780226552903, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Was Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here...

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Entomology

Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution

Eberhard William

ISBN: HB: 9780226534602, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 195 halftones, 97 line drawings

In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...

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World

Power and Time Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History

Edelstein Dan, Geroulanos Stefanos, Wheatley Natasha

ISBN: HB: 9780226481623, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Da...

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Media Studies

Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks

Blevins Jeffrey, Lee James

ISBN: PB: 9781947602847, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful poli...

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Education

Myths and Traditions of Central European University Culture

Fasora Lukas, Hanus Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024643809, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
224 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Lukas Fasora and Jiri Hanus take a diachronic approach to investigating the issues facing higher l...

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Anthropology

Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut / They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602234123, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
400 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 halftones

Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected...

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Contemporary Art

Iconoclasm

Freedberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226445335, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 57 halftones

With new surges of activity from religious, political, and military extremists, the destruction of images has become increasingly relevant on a global scale. A founder of the study of early modern and contemporary iconoclasm, David Freedberg has addr...

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Europe

Forgotten Revolution The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils

Gollner Andras

ISBN: PB: 9781551647159, ISBN: HB: 9781551647173, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals bega...

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Philosophy

Luther. The Origin of Modern Self-Consciousness Lectures, Volume 12

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035800166, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

If we are to understand the specifically modern function of self-consciousness, we must first look to the origins of the concept. Among the key thinkers who elaborated on self-consciousness was the German monk and theologian Martin Luther. Reiner Sch...

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Political Science

Marxism in the American Grain

Harootunian Harry D.

ISBN: PB: 9780996635578, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
150 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm

The work of Karl Marx has been taken up by a huge range of American writers, from a wide variety of perspectives. As Harry Harootunian argues in this provocative pamphlet, however, there is an indelible American stamp to this scholarship that unites...

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