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Ecology

All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Ecology

Abundant Earth Toward an Ecological Civilization

Crist Eileen

ISBN: PB: 9780226596808, ISBN: HB: 9780226596778, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

In "Abundant Earth", Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes – a large and growing h...

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Contemporary Art

Against the Avant-Garde Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism

Merjian Ara H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226655277, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 36 colour plates, 139 halftones

Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in postwar Europe. Pasolini self-confessedly approached the cinematic image through painting, and the numerous allusions to early mode...

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Contemporary Art

Ai Weiwei Bare Life

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316468, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, December 2019
192 pp., 22.8x26.6 cm, 90 colour plates

Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cult...

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America

Political Science

America's Inequality Trap

Kelly Nathan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...

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Anthropology

Arctic Folly The Anthropology of a Delusion

Deleage Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9781912808274, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2019
134 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a corpus including the first grammar of an Amerindian language and an astonishing body of transcribed ritua...

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Poetry

Armor & Ornament

Miles Christopher Lee

ISBN: PB: 9781602233874, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Armor & Ornament" turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry, calling instead upon traditional and Biblical forms. Rather than drawing on recent styles and modern trends, Miles looks to the texts that have inspired artists for millenn...

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Architecture

Art Nouveau Prague

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024642932, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
200 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 158 colour plates, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Prague has become one of Europe's – and the world's – most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to th...

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Music

Anthropology

Art of Mbira Musical Inheritance and Legacy

Berliner Paul F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226628684, ISBN: HB: 9780226628547, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...

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Literary Criticism

Arts of Dying Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

Smith D. Vance

ISBN: PB: 9780226640990, ISBN: HB: 9780226640853, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory – but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone...

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