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Search for Justice The Sri Lanka Papers

Jayawardena Kumari, Pinto-Jayawardena Kishali

ISBN: HB: 9789385932069, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm

At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In "The Search for Justice", a collection of writers an...

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Architecture

St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle

Royt Jan, Kuthan Jiri

ISBN: HB: 9788024631295, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
550 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 315 colour plates, 25 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle" is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemian kings and to this day is a leading Christian cathedral,...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy The Twilight of the Ancient World

Cantor Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226462516, ISBN: HB: 9780226462486, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays – "Coriolanus", "Julius Caeser", and "Antony and Cleopatra" – in his landmark "Shakespeare's Rome" (1976). With "Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy", he now argues that these plays form an integrated tri...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Rome Republic and Empire

Cantor Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226468952, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's "Shakespeare's Rome" has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the fi...

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Anthropology

Signs from Silence Ur of the First Sumerians

Charvat Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024631301, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 6 halftones, 148 line drawings, 15 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Excavated between 1922 and 1934...

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Philosophy

Spurs Nietzsche's Styles / Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226503165, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
172 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, de...

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Anthropology

Shem Pete's Alaska The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina

Kari James, Fall James A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233065, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2017
432 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 27 colour plates, 324 halftones, 66 maps

Shem Pete (1896-1989), a colorful and brilliant raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a rich legacy of knowledge about the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina world. Shem was one of the most versatile storytellers and historians in twentieth century Ala...

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History of Art

Spectacle and Leisure in Paris Degas to Mucha

Childs Elizabeth C.

ISBN: PB: 9780936316437, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, July 2017
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 62 colour illus.

Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as...

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General

Sociology of Howard S. Becker Theory with a Wide Horizon

Pessin Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226362854, ISBN: HB: 9780226362717, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents – in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to pathbreaking studies of devian...

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Literary Criticism

Sweet Science Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life

Jo Goldstein Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226484709, ISBN: HB: 9780226458441, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In "Sweet Science", Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Roma...

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