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Philosophy

Philosophy Between the Lines The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

Melzer Arthur M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226479170, ISBN: HB: 9780226175096, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Philosophical esotericism – the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines" – was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous "Encyclopedie of Diderot", for instance, not only discusses this pract...

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Anthropology

Patterns in Circulation Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa

Sylvanus Nina

ISBN: PB: 9780226397221, ISBN: HB: 9780226397191, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 18 halftones

In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women – through the making and circulation of wax cloth – became influential agents of taste and histo...

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Photography

Public Image Photography and Civic Spectatorship

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226342931, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates

Even as the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that m...

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Criminology

Provisional Authority Police, Order, and Security in India

Jauregui Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9780226403700, ISBN: HB: 9780226403670, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studyi...

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Political Science

Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse

Leifeld Philip

ISBN: PB: 9783593505701, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 100 tables

How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods...

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Anthropology

Phoenix An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast

Nigg Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780226195490, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 17 line drawings

Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world a...

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Political Science

Partisans and Partners The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society

Pacewicz Josh

ISBN: PB: 9780226402697, ISBN: HB: 9780226402550, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 14 tables

There's no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in "Partisans and Partners", Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic. Wheels-down in Iowa – that m...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Ryholt Kim, Barjamovic Gojko

ISBN: HB: 9788763543729, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
357 pp., 23.5x14 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones, 20 tables

The term "canonicity" implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. From the very earliest days of writing, text...

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Christianity

America

Peaceful Conquest Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order

Burnidge Cara Lea

ISBN: HB: 9780226232317, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful...

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Philosophy

Powers of Pure Reason Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy

Ferrarin Alfredo

ISBN: PB: 9780226419381, ISBN: HB: 9780226243153, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Critique of Pure Reason" – Kant's First Critique – is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise,...

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