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Culture Studies

Republic of Color Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America

Rossi Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226651729, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 6 halftones,

"The Republic of Color" delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of pr...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews

Samuels Maurice

ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Richard Rorty The Making of an American Philosopher

Gross Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226676487, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as "one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers." Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experience...

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America

Remembrance of Things Present The Invention of the Time Capsule

Yablon Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226574134, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

Time capsules may seem trivial and useless to historians, but, as Nick Yablon shows in this new book, they offer crucial insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, and their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things P...

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Contemporary Art

Ribbon of Darkness Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences

Stafford Barbara Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780226630519, ISBN: HB: 9780226630489, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones

Over the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, articulating new theories and methods for understanding the sublime, the mysterious, the inscrutable. Omnivo...

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Europe

Revolution Structure and Meaning in World History

Arjomand Said Amir

ISBN: HB: 9780226026831, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

A revolution is a discontinuity: one political order replaces another, typically through whatever violent means are available. Modern theories of revolutions tend neatly to bracket the French Revolution of 1789 with the fall of the Soviet Union two h...

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Anthropology

Rites of Passage Second Edition

van Gennep Arnold

ISBN: PB: 9780226629490, ISBN: HB: 9780226629353, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, "The Rites of Passage", has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark b...

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Sport

Rumble in the Jungle Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage

Erenberg Lewis A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226059433, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

The 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an o...

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Poetry

Ransom Street

Millikin Claire

ISBN: PB: 9781940939902, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Ransom Street" is Claire Millikin's third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for t...

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Psychology

Redefining Success in America A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development

Kaufman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226550152, ISBN: HB: 9780226550015, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 32 tables

Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream – and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered...

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