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America

Schultz John

ISBN: PB: 9780226760742, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice...

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Literary Criticism

Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

Chapman Alison A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226729299, ISBN: HB: 9780226729152, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts betwee...

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Poetry

Circle / Square

McLemore T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9781938769665, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2020
32 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Throughout Circle / Square, T. J. McLemore renders the language of physics and theoretical science into poetry to illuminate the mysterious ways we experience reality. Exploring the complex and at-times dense world of scientific language, MeLemore sp...

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Ecology

Climate in Motion Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226398822, ISBN: PB: 9780226752334, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 45 halftones

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary".Climate in Motion" shows that this multiscalar, multicausa...

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Earth Sciences

Coast to Explore Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661810, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
338 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 colour plates

Coasts have always enchanted us with their wild beauty. Coast to Explore offers an accessible guide to what we see when we look at a coastline: the wave-cut rock cliffs, sea caves, and sea stacks, as well as sand and gravel beaches and coastal dunes....

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Political Science

Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present

Ragusa Jordan M., Birkhead Nathaniel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables

After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...

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Philosophy

Critique The Stakes of Form

Khatib Sami

ISBN: PB: 9783035802405, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophic...

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Philosophy

Critique and the Digital

Horl Erich, Pinkrah Nelly Y., Warnsholdt Lotte

ISBN: PB: 9783035802429, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Erich Horl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not...

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Reference

Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching

McGlynn Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226542362, ISBN: HB: 9780226542225, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Higher education is a strange beast. Teaching is a critical skill for scientists in academia, yet one that is barely touched upon in their professional training – despite being a substantial part of their career. This book is a practical guide for an...

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Europe

Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance

Kramer Nathaniel, Stewart Jon

ISBN: HB: 9788763546706, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
279 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Danish Golden Age was marked by several key events: the Napoleonic Wars, the bombardment of Copenhagen, the state bankruptcy in 1814 and the ensuing financial crisis, the revolution of 1848, and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in 1...

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