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Music

Kwaito's Promise Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

Steingo Gavin

ISBN: PB: 9780226362540, ISBN: HB: 9780226362403, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed "kwaito" – a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generati...

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History

Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at Fifty Reflections on a Science Classic

Richards Robert J., Daston Lorraine

ISBN: PB: 9780226317205, ISBN: HB: 9780226317038, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 2 line drawings

Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the "paradigm...

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Nature

Ecology

Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie Australia, America, and the Environment

Bradshaw Corey J. A., Ehrlich Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316987, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 2 maps, 1 line drawing

Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive – the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth – and both possess a vast amount o...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Kal'unek-from Karluk Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of the Karluk One Village Site

Steffian Amy, Leist Marnie, Haakanson Sven Jr., Saltonstall Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9781602232440, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2015
350 pp., 29.3x24.1 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Karluk One is a remarkable archaeological site. For six hundred years, the Alutiiq built houses upon houses, preserving layer after layer of their ways of life. When fresh water from a nearby pond seeped through the deposit, the massive mound of cult...

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Philosophy

Kant's Organicism Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy

Mensch Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226271514, ISBN: HB: 9780226021980, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Because it laid the foundation for nearly all subsequent epistemologies, Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" has overshadowed his other interests in natural history and the life sciences, which scholars have long considered as separate from his...

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Philosophy

Kierkegaard and Political Theory Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual

Avanessian Armen, Wennerscheid Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9788763541541, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Soren Kierkegaard's radical protestant philosophy of the individual – in which a person's leap of faith is favored over general ethics – has become a model for many contemporary political theorists. Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou have...

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Photography

Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Zinfert Maria

ISBN: HB: 9783037346716, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 30 colour plates, 280 halftones

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work o...

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America

Kiska The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Coyle Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232372, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour plates, 77 halftones

Alaska's windswept Aleutian Island chain arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska Island, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. Few have the opportu...

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Law

Kafka's Law "The Trial" and American Criminal Justice

Burns Robert P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226167473, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Trial" is actually closer to reality than fantasy as far as the client's perception of the system. It's supposed to be a fantastic allegory, but it's reality. It's very important that lawyers read it and understand this".Justice" Anthony Kennedy...

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Literary Criticism

Katherine Parr Complete Works and Correspondence

Parr Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9780226213798, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
656 pp., 25x18 cm

To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512-1548) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Pa...

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