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Philosophy

Fragile Life Accepting Our Vulnerability

May Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226439952, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm

It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity...

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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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Business & Economics

Strategy Navigating the Complexity of the New World

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593398105, ISBN: HB: 9783593506111, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
400 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 117 colour illus.

In "Strategy", Fredmund Malik once again offers executives in the business world the tools they need to lead their companies. Exploring the technological innovations that have revolutionized business, Malik outlines the problems confronting companies...

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Christianity

On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – March

Mathews Edward G.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529983, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
218 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Yaysmawurk' is an Armenian liturgical collection of brief saints' lives arranged according to the day on which they were celebrated in the annual church calendar. The first Yaysmawurk' was translated from an existing Greek liturgical collection,...

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Philosophy

On Knowing – The Social Sciences

McKeon Richard P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226340210, ISBN: HB: 9780226340180, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 34 tables

As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy – across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics – and s...

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Philosophy

Philosophy Between the Lines The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

Melzer Arthur M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226479170, ISBN: HB: 9780226175096, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Philosophical esotericism – the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines" – was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous "Encyclopedie of Diderot", for instance, not only discusses this pract...

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Education

Rise of the Research University A Sourcebook

Menand Louis, Reitter Paul, Wellmon Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226414713, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and,...

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Anthropology

"Man-with Variations" Interviews with Franz Boas and Colleagues, 1937

Mitchell Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780996635516, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2017
75 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

"The most interesting human beings, so far as talk is concerned, are anthropologists, farmers, prostitutes, psychiatrists, and the occasional bartender". So wrote Joseph Mitchell, the legendary New Yorker journalist and chronicler of the full spectru...

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Photography

Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

Mitman Gregg, Wilder Kelley

ISBN: HB: 9780226129112, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 40 halftones

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would b...

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Reference

Chicago Guide to Communicating Science Second Edition

Montgomery Scott L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226144504, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings

For more than a decade, "The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science" has been the go-to reference for anyone who needs to write or speak about their research. Whether a student writing a thesis, a faculty member composing a grant proposal, or a publi...

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