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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Aesthetic Theory

Mersch Dieter, Zanetti Sandro, Sasse Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9783035801460, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
240 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 15 colour plates, 20 halftones

Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic the...

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Photography

After the Crisis Contemporary States of Photography

Grau Donatien, Wiesner Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783035802023, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
160 pp., 18.6x11.8 cm, 20 halftones

"After the Crisis" offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory...

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Business & Economics

Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior

Schlenker Wolfram

ISBN: HB: 9780226619804, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 130 figures, 57 tables

Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution. At the same time, inflation-adjusted agricultural commodity prices have been trending downward as increases in supply outpace the growth of...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Arthur Vandenberg The Man in the Middle of the American Century

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226682037, ISBN: HB: 9780226433486, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that a Senator – Republican or Democrat – would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn't always been the case. Arthur H. Vanden...

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Cartography

America

Atlas of Boston History

Seasholes Nancy S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...

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America

Polonica

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226406619, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...

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Contemporary Art

America

Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...

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Political Science

Authoritarian Apprehensions Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

Wedeen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226650609, ISBN: HB: 9780226650579, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 6 line drawings

If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In "Authoritarian Apprehensi...

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Anthropology

America

Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Schweitzer Ivy, Henry Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9781512603651, ISBN: HB: 9781512603644, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Afterlives of Indigenous Archives" offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of "digital humanities". The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous sc...

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Anthropology

Akulmiut Neqait Fish and Food of the Akulmiut

Fienup-Riordan Ann, Meade Marie, Rearden Alice

ISBN: PB: 9781602233867, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
350 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 60 colour plates

For centuries, the Akulmiut people – a Yup'ik group – have been sustained by the annual movements of whitefish. It is a food that sustains and defines them. To this day, many Akulmiut view not only their actions in the world, but their interactions w...

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