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History of Art

Restless Figure Expression in Czech Sculpture 1880-1914

Wittlich Petr, Baborovska Sandra

ISBN: HB: 9788024634289, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
240 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the nineteenth century, Czech figural sculpture achieved an artistic quality comparable to that of contemporary artworks produced in the main artistic centers of Europe, incl...

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Law

Rights on Trial How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality

Berrey Ellen, Nelson Robert L., Nielsen Laura Beth

ISBN: PB: 9780226466859, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 7 line drawings, 10 tables

Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading "KKK" in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves su...

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Literary Criticism

Revolution of the Ordinary Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

Moi Toril

ISBN: PB: 9780226464442, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy – a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell – to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Mo...

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Fiction

River Runs through It and Other Stories

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226472065, ISBN: HB: 9780226475592, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of "A River Runs through It and Other Stories" to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it". Forty years later, the title novella is rec...

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General

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Hyra Derek S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226449531, ISBN: HB: 9780226449364, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 6 line drawings, 17 tables

For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck...

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History of Art

Romanesque – Picasso

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Philippot Emilia

ISBN: PB: 9788480432870, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
257 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 170 colour plates, 20 halftones

This beautifully illustrated book, the catalog for an exhibition on view at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona and coorganized with the Picasso Museum in Paris, explores important affinities between Picasso and Romanesque art. Using...

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History

Asia

Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China

Schmalzer Sigrid

ISBN: HB: 9780226330150, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 30 halftones

In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world – and forestall the spread of more "red", or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where mode...

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History

Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage

Jones Matthew L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226411460, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 1 table

From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed – but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence,...

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Contemporary Art

Rafael Soriano The Artist as Mystic / El artista como mistico

Goizueta Elizabeth T.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850270, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2017
200 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 90 colour plates, 50 figures

Cuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920-2015) was an acclaimed master of geometric abstraction and a global figure in the twentieth-century art world – his work resonated with such international artists of Latin American origin as Roberto Matta, Rufino Ta...

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Philosophy

Religion of Existence Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre

Khawaja Noreen

ISBN: HB: 9780226404516, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

"The Religion of Existence" reopens an old debate on an important question: What was existentialism? At the heart of existentialism, Noreen Khawaja argues, is a story about secular thought experimenting with the traditions of European Christianity. T...

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