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Inward Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self

Pagis Michal

ISBN: PB: 9780226361871, ISBN: HB: 9780226639383, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

Western society has never been more interested in interiority. Indeed, it seems more and more people are deliberately looking inward – toward the mind, the body, or both. Michal Pagis's "Inward" focuses on one increasingly popular channel for the int...

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Architecture

Importance of Being Urban Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940

Gamson David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226634548, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 table

For half a century – from the 1890s through World War II – the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power, but in urban school districts and classrooms".The Importance of Being Urb...

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History of Art

Illuminated Paris Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: HB: 9780226593869, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 75 colour plates, 32 halftones

The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplif...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2018 Volume 19

Stern Scott, Lerner Josh

ISBN: HB: 9780226645247, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2019
250 pp., 23x15 cm

This volume highlights the interaction between public policy and innovation. The first chapter documents the dramatic globalization of R&D and how this development has affected the efforts of U. S. multinationals to operate on the global technology...

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History

Inside Science Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science

Kohler Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226617985, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats".Inside Science" is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of...

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Women Studies

Indian Feminisms Individual and Collective Journeys

Kathuria Poonam, Bhaiya Abha

ISBN: HB: 9789385932021, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only for the essential work they do but for the successes they've had. This collection of essays, written by well-known activ...

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America

Imagining Anchorage The Making of America's Northernmost Metropolis

Barnett James, Hartman Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781602233669, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2019
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 132 colour plates

Anchorage is an exceptional city. What was once a town site of tents is now the largest city in the state. It just celebrated its centenary in 2015, but it has seen inhabitants for millennia. It is an economic hub grown from railroads, gold, and oil....

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America

Islands of Sovereignty Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire

Kahn Jeffrey S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226587417, ISBN: HB: 9780226587387, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 17 line drawings

In "Islands of Sovereignty", anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal...

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Literary Criticism

Impostors Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity

Miller Christopher L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591001, ISBN: HB: 9780226590950, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, "Impostors" examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not,...

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Asia

Invention of Madness State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China

Baum Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226558240, ISBN: HB: 9780226580616, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began...

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