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Rethinking America's Highways A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure

Poole Robert W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226759302, ISBN: HB: 9780226557571, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 14 tables

Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and det...

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Performing Arts

Rusalka A Lyrical Fairy-tale in Three Acts

Kvapil Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024643816, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
100 pp., 19x12.7 cm, 20 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Famous as the libretto for Antonin Dvorak's opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil's poem "Rusalka" is an intriguing work of literature on its own. Directly inspired by Hans Christian And...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy

Smith Pangle Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780226688169, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", this book offers a novel int...

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Literary Criticism

Radium of the Word A Poetics of Materiality

Dworkin Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226743561, ISBN: HB: 9780226743424, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations...

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Philosophy

Reading Marx On Transcendental Materialism

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035802016, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories...

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Poetry

Rise Wildly

Kelley Tina

ISBN: PB: 9781933880808, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley's poems betray an unabashed affection for big words and...

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Fiction

Radio Works: 1946-48

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most expe...

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Chemistry

Rainbow Palate How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food

Cobbold Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226727059, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 tables

We live in a world saturated by chemicals – our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform...

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America

Law

Rights of the Defenseless Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America

Pearson Susan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226760605, ISBN: HB: 9780226652016, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
280 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 14 halftones

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in...

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History of Art

Renaissance and Baroque Art Selected Essays

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226668727, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
416 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 105 colour plates, 140 halftone

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporar...

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