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Philosophy

Media Studies

Rodowick D. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...

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History

Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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Anthropology

Worldviews of the Greenlanders An Inuit Arctic Perspective

Sonne Birgitte

ISBN: HB: 9781602233386, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
1150 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map

Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research...

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Philosophy

What the Foucault?

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780996635547, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2018
94 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins' classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between. It's been twenty-five years since Sahlins first devised some after-dinner entert...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

World in Guangzhou Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace

Mathews Gordon, Dan Lin Linessa, Yang Yang

ISBN: PB: 9780226506104, ISBN: HB: 9780226506074, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants ar...

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Philosophy

What Philosophy Is For

Hampe Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226365282, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it be tomorrow? With "What Philosophy Is For", Michael Hampe answers these questions by exploring the relationships among philosophy, education, science, and narrative, developing a Socratic criti...

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Poetry

Woman Prime Poems

DiMaggio Gail C.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233423, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles she's called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very...

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Business & Economics

Wrong Turnings How the Left Got Lost

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226505886, ISBN: HB: 9780226505749, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state interven...

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Political Science

Why Parties Matter Political Competition and Democracy in the American South

Aldrich John H., Griffin John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226495378, ISBN: HB: 9780226495231, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones, 17 line drawings, 20 tables

Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political development. Among the factors that have led to their divergence throughout much of history are differences in the levels of compet...

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Philosophy

Europe

What Nostalgia Was War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Dodman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226492940, ISBN: HB: 9780226492803, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it coul...

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