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Of Beards and Men The Revealing History of Facial Hair

Oldstone-Moore Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226479200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284002, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones

Beards – they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipste...

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Culture Studies

Feeding the Spirit Food, Culture and Community

Merritt Elizabeth E.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253879, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, March 2017
190 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

From Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign to the health section of the New York Times, the United States is reexamining its relationship to food on a public and national level. Tied into concerns over the American diet are issues of sustainability,...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

Bruno Giuliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226434636, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 24.7x22.8 cm, 80 colour plates, 6 halftones

What is the place of materiality – the expression or condition of physical substance – in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In "Surface", cultural critic and theori...

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Culture Studies

Gardening

Orchid A Cultural History

Endersby Jim

ISBN: HB: 9780226376325, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 23x15.5 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones

At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchid have carried symbolic weight in countless cultures over time. The ancient Greeks...

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Culture Studies

Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack

Cappello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226356068, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones, 1 map, 34 figures

Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in...

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Culture Studies

Science of Myths and Vice Versa

Schrempp Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780996635509, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
62 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

We often assume that science and myth stand in opposition – with science providing empirically supported truths that replace the false ideas found in traditional mythologies. But the rhetoric of contemporary popular science and related genres tells a...

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Culture Studies

New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

Halle David, Tiso Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table

The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

On the Animation of the Inorganic Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life

Papapetros Spyros

ISBN: PB: 9780226380193, ISBN: HB: 9780226645681, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
440 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 164 halftones, 10 colour illus.

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interactin...

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Culture Studies

Marking Modern Times A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life

McCrossen Alexis

ISBN: PB: 9780226379685, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 66 halftones

The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces – bells, time balls, and clock faces – that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows. And in the streets and squares bene...

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Culture Studies

Computer Science & Internet

Cybernetics The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions

Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783037345986, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 halftones

Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cy...

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