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History of Art

Quality Instinct Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

Anderson Maxwell L.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253671, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
236 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? These questions have long spawned heated conversations about objectivity, subjectivity, and qualitative judgment that span both the academic and art worlds. Acclaimed...

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Political Science

Islam

Questioning Secularism Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt

Ali Agrama Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226010694, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 25x15 cm

The central question of the Arab Spring – what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East – has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has...

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Political Science

Quality of Government Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective

Rothstein Bo

ISBN: PB: 9780226729572, ISBN: HB: 9780226729565, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 14 halftones, 2 line illus.

The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government in...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Queering the Underworld Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History

Herring Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226327914, ISBN: HB: 9780226327907, University of Chicago Press, December 2007
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing

At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid detai...

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Other

Quest History and Meaning in Religion

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226203867, University of Chicago Press, May 1985
187 pp., 23x15 cm

In "The Quest Mircea Eliade" stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by...

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