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On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II
ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones
In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...
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On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820
ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...
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Our Once and Future Planet Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226333403, ISBN: HB: 9780226907390, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it's hard not to focus on the...
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Off to College A Guide for Parents
ISBN: HB: 9780226295633, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For many parents, sending their child off to college can be a disconcerting leap. After years spent helping with homework, attending parent-teacher conferences, and catching up after school, college life represents a world of unknowns. What really ha...
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Objectivity and Diversity Another Logic of Scientific Research
ISBN: PB: 9780226241364, ISBN: HB: 9780226241227, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be...
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Organizing Locally How the New Decentralists Improve Education, Health Care, and Trade
ISBN: PB: 9780226246543, ISBN: HB: 9780226246406, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. But the fact i...
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Overwinter
ISBN: PB: 9781602232532, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A debut collection from an exciting new voice in Alaska poetry, "Overwinter" reconciles the natural quiet of wilderness with the clamor of built environments. Jeremy Pataky's migration between Anchorage and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park inspires t...
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Ozone Journal
ISBN: PB: 9780226207032, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
from "Ozone Journal" Bach's cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette, we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference between an oboe and a bassoon at the river's edge under cover...
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Osiris, Volume 29 Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780226158396, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
450 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner...
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Off-Screen Cinema Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226174594, ISBN: HB: 9780226174457, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones
One of the most important avant-garde movements in postwar Paris was Lettrism, which built an interest in the relations between writing and image in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge between...
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