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Philosophy

Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing Constructing "Democracy and Social Ethics"

Fischer Marilyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226631325, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In "Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing", Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams's reasoning in her first book, "Democracy and Social Ethics", is thoroughly evolutionary. While "Democracy and Social Ethics", a foundational...

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Law

Just Words Law, Language, and Power (Third Edition)

Conley John M., O'Barr William M., Conley Riner Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780226484365, ISBN: HB: 9780226484228, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling th...

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Law

Justice Scalia Rhetoric and the Rule of Law

Slocum Brian G., Mootz III Francis J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226601823, ISBN: HB: 9780226601656, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "new originalist" interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of...

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Contemporary Art

Jennifer Packer Tenderheaded

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548717, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2018
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 38 colour plates

In her solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society in 2017, "Tenderheaded", Jennifer Packer established herself as one of the most compelling painters of her generation. The exhibition, a selection of portraits and paintings of funerary bouquets, base...

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Poetry

Just Between Us

McElroy David

ISBN: PB: 9781602233508, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Just Between Us" is a celebration of the vivid human connections that occur when traveling through some of the world's most stirring landscapes. David McElroy, a former pilot in the far north, transports us from the Arctic to the tropics, over rural...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 24

Funakoshi Kenshi

ISBN: PB: 9781684000241, ISBN: HB: 9781684000258, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both language...

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Jewish Studies

Law

Jewish Legal Theories Writings on State, Religion, and Morality

Batnitzky Leora, Brafman Yonatan

ISBN: PB: 9781584657446, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal...

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Literary Criticism

Joyce's Ghosts Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

Luke Gibbons

ISBN: PB: 9780226526959, ISBN: HB: 9780226236179, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

For decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure. In "Joyce's Ghost...

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Law

Judicial Reputation A Comparative Theory

Garoupa Nuno, Ginsburg Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226478708, ISBN: HB: 9780226290591, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 14 tables

Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They m...

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Middle East

Jerusalem 1900 The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities

Lemire Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226188232, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 table

Perhaps the most contested patch of earth in the world, Jerusalem's Old City experiences consistent violent unrest between Israeli and Palestinian residents, with seemingly no end in sight. Today, Jerusalem's endless cycle of riots and arrests appear...

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