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History

Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700786, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
504 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings

This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...

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History

Experimental Fire Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700

Rampling Jennifer M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226710709, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 tables

In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could...

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Media Studies

Connect and Divide The Practice Turn in Media Studies

Bergermann Ulrike, Dommann Monika, Schuttpelz Erhard, Stolow Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9783035800517, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
386 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Media is a kind of gatekeeper, connecting disparate entities and shielding them from one another at the same time. When we speak of media, we often refer to those entities themselves – to persons, organizations, artifacts, signals, and inscriptions –...

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Contemporary Art

Endless

Reimer Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780945323273, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2021
124 pp., 22x14.5 cm, 51 colour plates, 26 halftones

For over fifteen years, Karen Reimer has dedicated her artistic life to reconsidering modernist ideals and minimalist embodiment through the intriguing quirks of handmade and everyday objects".Endless", offers over seventy-five gorgeous reproductions...

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Linguistics

Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics Papers in Honor of Daniele Godard

Abeille Anne, Bonami Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9781684000463, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume is devoted to the syntax and semantics of various languages, studied with models based on constraints. Both French and international linguists present their work in tribute to Daniele Godard, emeritus research director at the Centre natio...

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Education

Broke The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities

Hamilton Laura T., Nielsen Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780226747453, ISBN: HB: 9780226605401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gaine...

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Philosophy

Two Thumbs Up How Critics Aid Appreciation

Ross Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780226064284, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for cri...

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Philosophy

Seven Letters to Melin From Letters to My Scientist Friend

Safarik Josef

ISBN: PB: 9788024643755, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
300 pp., 19x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Josef Safarik's "Seven Letters to Melin" is an exploration of man's alienation from nature – and from himself – in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin,...

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Contemporary Art

Claudia Wieser Generations

Adams Rachel, Carty Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780935573633, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 colour plates

Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality – such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee – she considers abstraction...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy

Smith Pangle Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780226688169, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", this book offers a novel int...

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