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Negative Certainties

Marion Jean-Luc, Lewis Stephen E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226505619, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Negative Certainties", renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he loo...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Newton Kosmos – Bios – Logos

Stepanova Irena

ISBN: PB: 9788024623795, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2015
170 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1936, following the sale of Newton's unpublished manuscripts at auction, the scientific world was shocked: it turned out that Newton's writings in physics and mathematics, often conside...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2014 Volume 29

Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226268736, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2015
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-ninth edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual continues its tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. Two papers in this year's issue deal with recent economic performance...

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Culture Studies

General

Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Harks Tobias, Vehlken Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...

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America

Necessary Evil Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982812, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 maps

From the Mormon Wars to the Border Wars to gangs of Bald Knobbers and Bushwhackers, Missouri's reign of vigilante justice during the nineteenth century is unparalleled by any other state in the nation. Situated as the Gateway to the West, Missouri ex...

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Fiction

No Ghosts in This City And Other Short Stories

Goswami Uddipana

ISBN: PB: 9789383074075, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm

The powerful short stories in this collection are set against – and frequently driven by – the picturesque yet often violent backdrop of Assam, a province in India's northeast. In one, a young man attempts to escape the confines of middle-class aspir...

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Fiction

Nightwatches of Bonaventura

Bonaventura

ISBN: PB: 9780226141565, ISBN: HB: 9780226141428, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura", "The Nightwatches of Bonaventura" is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. The narrator and antihero is not Bonaventura but a night watchman named...

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Philosophy

Nation as Network Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship

Bernal Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226144818, ISBN: HB: 9780226144788, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when international migration is coupled with digital media, making it easy for people to be politically active in a nation from outside its borde...

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Gender Studies

Not Tonight Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health

Kempner Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226179155, ISBN: HB: 9780226179018, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Pain. Vomiting. Hours and days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans and costs the US economy at least $32 billion per year. Nevertheless, it is frequent...

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Philosophy

Natural Questions

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226748399, ISBN: HB: 9780226748382, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of n...

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