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Literary Criticism

Daily Henry David Thoreau A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season

Thoreau Henry David

ISBN: PB: 9780226624969, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each". Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passi...

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Literary Criticism

Different Order of Difficulty Literature after Wittgenstein

Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226677156, ISBN: HB: 9780226677019, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Dangerous Earth What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More

Prager Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226541693, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 24 halftones

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can als...

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America

Daily Thomas Paine A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age

Paine Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226653518, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis", Paine codified both co...

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Ancient World

Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

Landauer Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226653792, ISBN: HB: 9780226654010, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an impo...

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History of Art

Diagramming Devotion Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross

Hamburger Jeffrey F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226642819, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
384 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 183 colour plates, 38 halftones

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such kno...

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Criminology

Linguistics

Discourse of Police Interviews

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

Markon Carl

ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone

The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Jane Austen A Year of Quotes

Austen Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226655444, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit a...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Sherlock Holmes A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective

Doyle Arthur Conan

ISBN: PB: 9780226659640, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

"Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes", said Stamford, introducing us."How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive". "How on earth did you kno...

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