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Europe

Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

Long Pamela O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591285, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 halftones

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hund...

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Savages, Romans, and Despots Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder

Launay Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226575391, ISBN: HB: 9780226575254, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans struggled to understand their identity in the same way we do as individuals: by comparing themselves to others. In "Savages, Romans, and Despots", Robert Launay takes us on a fascinating tour...

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Photography

Carrie Mae Weems Strategies of Engagement

Lydenberg Robin, Anderson Ash

ISBN: PB: 9781892850331, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2018
225 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 115 colour plates, 30 halftones

Few American artists today are creating work as striking and politically charged as Carrie Mae Weems".Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement" explores a unique body of aesthetically powerful work that is particularly relevant in the context of cu...

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Literary Criticism

Loving Literature A Cultural History

Lynch Deidre Shauna

ISBN: PB: 9780226598390, ISBN: HB: 9780226183701, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common – and perhaps the most wounding – is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studi...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought

Lysaker John Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780226569567, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought". Whether in Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, or Derrida, philosophy has come in many forms, and those forms...

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America

This Land Is Your Land The Story of Field Biology in America

Lannoo Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226580890, ISBN: HB: 9780226358475, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 9 line drawings, 1 table

Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and th...

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General

Thinking Through Statistics

Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226567631, ISBN: HB: 9780226567464, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 56 line drawings, 25 tables

Simply put, "Thinking Through Statistics" is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work. But don't let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour...

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Other

Anthropology

Apples and Oranges Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226564074, ISBN: HB: 9780226563916, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 tables

Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to tak...

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Europe

Ghosts of Berlin Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape

Ladd Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226558721, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In the twenty years since its original publication, "The Ghosts of Berlin" has become a classic, an unparalleled guide to understanding the presence of history in our built environment, especially in a space as historically contested – and emotionall...

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America

Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States

LaChance Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...

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