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Literary Criticism

Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ruling Culture Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Greenland Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780226757032, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 map

Through much of its history, Italy was Europe's heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks and antiquities. This loss of artifacts looted by other nations once...

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Asia

Realtime Making Digital China

Renaud Clement, Graezer Bideau Florence, Laperrouza Marc

ISBN: PB: 9782889153459, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Realtime is an investigation into China's digital and urban infrastructure, practices, and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale, and depth of China's complex and changing reality. Realtime is a collection of original accounts, ana...

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Contemporary Art

Refaire le monde

Maurer Simon, Morgenthaler Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9783035802740, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Staging an exhibition as choreography, as drama, as opera, as a place where reality, politics, aesthetics, art, film, and music can address the issues of our day through documentaries, dialogues, science, activism, and creativity: This is the dream,...

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Architecture

Rem Koolhaas/OMA The Construction of Merveilles

Gargiani Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9782889153121, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly considered as one of the leaders of contemporary archit...

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America

Remembering Emmett Till

Tell Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226559674, ISBN: HB: 9780226559537, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
322 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate...

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Law

Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery in the Time of Queen Anne (1702 to 1714)

Bryson W. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986410, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, February 2021
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book is a part of an ongoing project to publish the early modern manuscript law reports from the Court of Chancery during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). This new edition triples the number of case reports currently in print, making them ac...

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Sea Life

Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of the Bird's Head Seascape, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 68

Turak Emre, Katz Laure

ISBN: PB: 9781934151587, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
110 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, Illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of Bird's "Head Seascape" in western Indonesia. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on the flora and fauna...

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Sea Life

Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of Anambas Islands, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 69

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Suharsono, Soemodinoto Arisetiarso, Basuki Riyanto

ISBN: PB: 9781934151594, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of the Anambas Islands in western Indonesia conducted in May 2012. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on...

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Education

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Eighty-Fifth Edition, 2020-2021

Frankhart Colleen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226742892, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels. Requirements for Certification is a valuable resource, making...

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