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Whiteout

Goodfellow Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9781602233270, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as...

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Philosophy

Work of Mourning

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226502496, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher – if not the only famous philosopher". He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes fr...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Watercolours A Story from Auschwitz

Ostalowska Lidia

ISBN: PB: 9789385932038, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children's barracks with images of the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...

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Reference

Write No Matter What Advice for Academics

Jensen Joli

ISBN: PB: 9780226461700, ISBN: HB: 9780226461670, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book – or even steady journal articles – may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it rea...

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Contemporary Art

William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

Taylor Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226791203, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 71 colour plates, 6 halftones

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he sta...

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Ecology

Wildness Relations of People and Place

Van Horn Gavin, Hausdoerffer John

ISBN: PB: 9780226444833, ISBN: HB: 9780226444666, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a will to be, a unique expression of life. Yet two contrasting ideas about wild nature permeate contemporary discussions: either that na...

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Business & Economics

Philosophy

Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics

Heath Eugene, Kaldis Byron

ISBN: PB: 9780226443850, ISBN: HB: 9780226443713, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
464 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how gove...

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Philosophy

Political Science

We Reviving Social Hope

Aronson Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780226334660, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society's profound crisis of hope. By 2016 a generation of shrinking employment, rising inequality, the attack on public education, and the shredding of the social safety net, had set the stage for st...

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Dogs

What Is a Dog?

Coppinger Raymond, Coppinger Lorna

ISBN: PB: 9780226478227, ISBN: HB: 9780226127941, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates, 13 halftones, 4 line drawings

Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are five times as many dogs who are their own masters – neighborhood dogs, dump...

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General

Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City

Krinsky John, Simonet Maud

ISBN: PB: 9780226435589, ISBN: HB: 9780226435442, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables

America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars – both public and private – fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash m...

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