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Education

Testing Charade Pretending to Make Schools Better

Koretz Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226644882, ISBN: HB: 9780226408712, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that scho...

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Philosophy

Thinking in the Past Tense Eight Conversations

Bevilacqua Alexander, Clark Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780226601205, ISBN: HB: 9780226601175, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If the vibrancy on display in "Thinking in the Past Tense" is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims wit...

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History

Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...

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Philosophy

Tomorrow the Manifold Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035800999, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2019
256 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

This volume tracks the crucial role of Reiner Schurmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991. Drawing on Foucault's highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schurmann traces the status of identity and dif...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Teachers of the People Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill

Villa Dana

ISBN: PB: 9780226637624, ISBN: HB: 9780226467498, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising...

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Philosophy

Theory and Practice

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226572345, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Theory and Practice" is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential in...

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Music

Trouble with Wagner

Steinberg Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226594194, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 12 halftones

In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of "The Ring of the Nibelung" for t...

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America

Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central

Koskey Michael, Lotvonen Varpu, Tyrell Laurel

ISBN: PB: 9781602233577, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2018
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables

The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they ar...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Technology Critical History of a Concept

Schatzberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...

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Education

Talking Art The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226560212, ISBN: HB: 9780226560182, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

In "Talking Art", acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master's-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fi...

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