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Anthropology

Philosophy

Four Lectures on Ethics Anthropological Perspectives

Lambek Michael, Das Veena, Fassin Didier, Keane Webb

ISBN: PB: 9780990505075, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field – Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Di...

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America

Secularism in Antebellum America

Lardas Modern John

ISBN: PB: 9780226325132, ISBN: HB: 9780226533230, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Return to Casablanca Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist

Levy Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780226292557, ISBN: HB: 9780226292410, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andre Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history – from the Jewish...

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Fiction

Simone A Novel

Lalo Eduardo

ISBN: PB: 9780226207483, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, "Simone" – which w...

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General

Anthropology

Ethical Condition Essays on Action, Person, and Value

Lambek Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226292243, ISBN: HB: 9780226292106, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditi...

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Middle East

Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226251875, ISBN: HB: 9780226481968, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in "Religion, Empire, and Torture", Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Per...

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Culture Studies

Urban Appetites Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

Lobel Cindy R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226322674, ISBN: HB: 9780226128757, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 maps

Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international no...

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America

Nation of Neighborhoods Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

Looker Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226290317, ISBN: HB: 9780226073989, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 1 line drawing

Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In "A Nation of Neighborhoods", Benja...

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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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Photography

Photography or Life / Popular Mies Columns of Smoke, Volume 1

Lahuerta Juan Jose

ISBN: PB: 9788493923143, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, May 2015
160 pp., 20.9x15.8 cm, 40 colour plates, 104 halftones

"Columns of Smoke" is a four-volume collection. The first volume includes "Photography or Life" and "Popular Mies", which illuminate overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced – and plausible – conception of t...

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