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Buddhism

Once a Peacock, Once an Actress Twenty-Four Lives of the Bodhisattva from Haribhatta's "Jatakamala"

Haribhatta

ISBN: PB: 9780226485966, ISBN: HB: 9780226485829, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Written in Kashmir around 400 CE, Haribhatta's Jatakamala is a remarkable example of classical Sanskrit literature in a mixture of prose and verse that for centuries was known only in its Tibetan translation. But between 1973 and 2004 a large portion...

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Philosophy

Of Spirit Heidegger and the Question

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226504148, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
148 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes". These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism – of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particul...

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Literary Criticism

History

Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Morgan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...

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Architecture

Obsolescence An Architectural History

Abramson Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226478050, ISBN: HB: 9780226313450, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones

In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient – and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New...

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World

Culture Studies

Of Beards and Men The Revealing History of Facial Hair

Oldstone-Moore Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226479200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284002, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones

Beards – they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipste...

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History

Osiris, Volume 31 History of Science and the Emotions

Dror Otniel, Hitzer Bettina, Laukotter Anja, Leon-Sanz Pilar

ISBN: PB: 9780226392042, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
318 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume of "Osiris" explores the historical interrelationships between science and its cultures and cultures of emotions. It argues that a dia...

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Christianity

On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – March

Mathews Edward G.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529983, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
218 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Yaysmawurk' is an Armenian liturgical collection of brief saints' lives arranged according to the day on which they were celebrated in the annual church calendar. The first Yaysmawurk' was translated from an existing Greek liturgical collection,...

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Philosophy

On Knowing – The Social Sciences

McKeon Richard P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226340210, ISBN: HB: 9780226340180, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 34 tables

As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy – across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics – and s...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Oriental Neighbors Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

Jacobson Abigail, Naor Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781512600063, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2016
286 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social,...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

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