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Philosophy

Muller-Colard Marion

ISBN: HB: 9783037345900, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Plato & Co. introduces children – and curious grown-ups – to the lives and work of...

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Contemporary Art

Helio Oiticica Folding the Frame

Small Irene V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226260167, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
304 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 50 colour plates, 85 halftones

Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) was one of the most brilliant Brazilian artists of the 1960s and 1970s. His unique melding of geometric abstraction with works that directly engage viewers' bodies has influenced contemporary artists from Gabriel Orozco and...

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Philosophy

Jewish Studies

Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy

Trawny Peter, Mitchell Andrew J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226303734, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 2014, the first three volumes of Heidegger's "Black Notebooks" – the personal and philosophical notebooks that he kept during the war years – were published in Germany. These notebooks provide the first textual evidence of anti-Semitism in Heidegg...

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Education

High-Stakes Schooling What America Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform

Bjork Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226309415, ISBN: HB: 9780226309385, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 tables

If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christop...

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Philosophy

Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility

Zambrana Rocio

ISBN: HB: 9780226280110, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility" picks up on recent revisionist readings of Hegel to offer a productive new interpretation of his notoriously difficult work, the "Science of Logic". Rocio Zambrana transforms the revisionist tradition by distilling...

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Philosophy

Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History

Gillespie Michael Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226293776, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and...

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America

Business & Economics

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Erickson Paul, Klein Judy L., Daston Lorraine, Lemov Rebecca, Sturm Thomas, Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

How Poems Think

Gibbons Reginald

ISBN: PB: 9780226278001, ISBN: HB: 9780226277950, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways – guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed artic...

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World

Human Shore Seacoasts in History

Gillis John R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324296, ISBN: HB: 9780226922232, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones

Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun...

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Reference

Houston, We Have a Narrative Why Science Needs Story

Olson Randy

ISBN: PB: 9780226270845, ISBN: HB: 9780226270708, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 9 line drawings

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that blockbu...

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