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Architecture

Perspective on EPFL Science, Architecture, People

Leutenegeer Catherine, Konopka Bogdan, Christinat Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9782889153053, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To mark its fiftieth anniversary, the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) gave free rein to three photographers, who were asked to capture the essence of the school and its future direction. Catherine Leutenegger's work delivered many det...

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Technology & Engineering

Anthropology

Excavating the Memory Palace Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer

Long Seth David

ISBN: PB: 9780226695280, ISBN: HB: 9780226695143, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 12 line drawings

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In reality, every era has faced its own challenges of storing, organizing, and accessing information. While th...

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Fiction

Many That I Am Writings from Nagaland

Longkumer Anungla Zoe

ISBN: HB: 9789385932793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A grandmother's tattoos, the advent of Christianity, stories woven into fabrics, a tradition of orality, the imposition of a "new" language, and a history of war and conflict – all of this and much more informs the writers and artists in this book. F...

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Philosophy

What a Philosopher Is Becoming Nietzsche

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9780226760438, ISBN: HB: 9780226488110, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche – classicist and ardent advocate of Wagner's cultural renewal – become the philosopher of Will to Power and t...

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America

Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity

Lee Cartwright Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226696881, ISBN: HB: 9780226696911, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white nei...

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Education

Allies and Rivals German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University

Levine Emily J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226341811, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American institutions led the world. How did America become the center o...

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Anthropology

Wild Thought A New Translation of "La Pensee sauvage"

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226413082, ISBN: HB: 9780226208015, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 19 line drawings

Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned...

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Poetry

Snow's Wife

Lindsay Frannie

ISBN: PB: 9781933880815, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the distasteful, that lend startling poignancy to unbearable hards...

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Anthropology

Science in the Forest, Science in the Past

Lloyd Geoffrey E. R., Vilaca Aparecida

ISBN: PB: 9781912808410, University of Chicago Press, HAU, October 2020
165 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection brings together leading social anthropologists, historians, philosophers of science and mathematics, and researchers in artificial intelligence to discuss the ontological presuppositions used in indigenous, Eastern, and Western societ...

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Literary Criticism

Lyric Now

Longenbach James

ISBN: PB: 9780226716046, ISBN: HB: 9780226715995, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers int...

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