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Education

More than Lore Reminiscences of Marion Talbot

Talbot Marion

ISBN: HB: 9780226316703, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table

The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms". In a time when...

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Business & Economics

Education

Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education

Anteby Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226323510, ISBN: HB: 9780226092478, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure facu...

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History

Making "Nature" The History of a Scientific Journal

Baldwin Melinda

ISBN: HB: 9780226261454, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables

"Making 'Nature'" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark fo...

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Culture Studies

Cartoon Art

Mutants and Mystics Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271484, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
376 pp., 21.5x15 cm, 60 colour illus.

In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men", th...

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Music

Metaphor and Musical Thought

Spitzer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226273136, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.3x16.5 cm, 1 colour plate, 7 halftones, 95 line drawings, 76 musical examples

"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of...

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Anthropology

General

Modes of Uncertainty Anthropological Cases

Samimian-Darash Limor, Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226257105, ISBN: HB: 9780226257075, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 5 halftones

"Modes of Uncertainty" offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose un...

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Contemporary Art

More Alive Than Those Who Made Them

Hoeck Richard, Miller John

ISBN: PB: 9780945323266, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, July 2015
54 pp., 24.8x17.2 cm, 24 colour plates

This book brings together for the first time an influential series of sculptures made with department store mannequins that American artist and writer John Miller created, often in collaboration with Austrian artist Richard Hoeck. The book is built a...

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Asia

History of Art

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

Foxwell Chelsea

ISBN: HB: 9780226110806, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
296 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 34 colour plates, 70 halftones

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a pe...

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Philosophy

Mind, Self, and Society The Definitive Edition

Mead George Herbert

ISBN: PB: 9780226112732, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
536 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collec...

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Philosophy

History of Art

Modular Objects Civil Society

Oppenheimer Geof

ISBN: HB: 9780945323235, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, May 2015
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 143 halftones

"Modular Objects Civil Society" creatively reimagines the ways in which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they inhabit – and thereby cultivate. At its heart, the book is a reflection on the performance of living...

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