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Literary Criticism

Kraus Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024622156, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Rhetoric in European and World Culture" traces the position of rhetoric in cultural and educational systems from ancient times to the present. Here, Jiri Kraus examines rhetoric's decline...

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Culture Studies

Rereading the Machine in the Garden Nature and Technology in American Culture

Erbacher Eric C., Maruo-Schroder Nicole, Sedlmeier Florian

ISBN: PB: 9783593501918, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
246 pp., 21x13.9 cm

This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Rereading the Fossil Record The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226272948, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 42 halftones

Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontolog...

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General

Remittance Landscape Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA

Lopez Sarah Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226202815, ISBN: HB: 9780226105130, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico – one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With "The Remittance Landscape", Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with th...

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Jewish Studies

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady The Origins of Chabad Hasidism

Etkes Immanuel

ISBN: HB: 9781611686777, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus playe...

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Buddhism

Rescued from the Nation Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World

Kemper Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226199078, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drov...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities

Ridolfo Jim, Hart-Davidson William

ISBN: PB: 9780226176697, ISBN: HB: 9780226176550, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton's annotations, use social media to engage academic and public...

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America

Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer

Pritchett Wendell E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214016, ISBN: HB: 9780226684482, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advoc...

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Fiction

Reuben, Reuben A Novel

De Vries Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226170565, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
448 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia – the school of John Updike and Cheever – this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of...

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History of Art

Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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