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Philosophy

Irrevocable A Philosophy of Mortality

Lingis Alphonso

ISBN: PB: 9780226556932, ISBN: HB: 9780226556765, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology...

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Islam

World

Islam and World History The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson

Burke Edmund, Mankin Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226584782, ISBN: HB: 9780226584645, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's "The Venture of Islam" was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the develop...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

I've Got to Make My Livin' Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Blair Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597584, ISBN: HB: 9780226055985, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 maps, 9 tables, 15 halftones

For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In "I've Got to Make My Livin'", Cynthia Blair...

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Political Science

Increasingly United States How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized

Hopkins Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226530376, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 line drawings, 9 tables

In a campaign for state or local office these days, you're as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because Ameri...

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Business & Economics

Law

International Bankruptcy The Challenge of Insolvency in a Global Economy

Kirshner Jodie Adams

ISBN: HB: 9780226531977, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With the growth of international business and the rise of companies with subsidiaries around the world, the question of where a company should file bankruptcy proceedings has become increasingly complicated. Today, most businesses are likely to have...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and Precipitation Measurement and Modeling Challenges

Baumgardner Darrel, McFarquhar Greg M., Heymsfield Andrew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970260, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

Background and Overview Chapter 1. Overview of Ice Nucleating Particles – Zamin A. Kanji, Luis A. Ladino, Heike Wex, Yvonne Boose, Monika Burkert-Kohn, Daniel J. Cziczo, and Martina Krنmer Chapter 2. Cirrus Clouds – Andrew J. Heymsfield, Martina Krنm...

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Culture Studies

Is the Cemetery Dead?

Sloane David Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780226539447, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 8 tables

In modern society, we have professionalized our care for the dying and deceased in hospitals and hospices, churches and funeral homes, cemeteries and mausoleums to aid dazed and disoriented mourners. But these formal institutions can be alienating an...

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Photography

Inadvertent Images A History of Photographic Apparitions

Geimer Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226471877, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 18 colour plates, 58 halftones

As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how...

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Literary Criticism

In the Quiet Season and Other Stories

Amore Martha

ISBN: PB: 9781602233522, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"In the Quiet Season & Other Stories" explores the human landscape of Alaska. While the stories take place in modern-day towns, each is laced with a timelessness that comes from their roots in ageless issues: broken trust and heartbreak, hope and reb...

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Islam

Islam and the Rule of Justice Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226511603, ISBN: HB: 9780226511573, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientati...

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