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Political Science

Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present

Ragusa Jordan M., Birkhead Nathaniel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables

After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...

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History

Before Nature Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

Rochberg Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780226759586, ISBN: HB: 9780226406138, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and always has – but "Before Nature" explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of "nature" – no word, reference, or sense fo...

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America

World Is Always Coming to an End Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

Rotella Carlo

ISBN: PB: 9780226759616, ISBN: HB: 9780226624037, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map

An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day – and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people – the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it c...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Hieratic Texts from Tebtunis

Ryholt Kim

ISBN: HB: 9788763546768, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates

This book contains a selection of hieratic texts from the ancient town of Tebtunis – hymns and litanies, rituals of protection, a mythological narrative, scholarly compositions, and documentary texts – as well as a survey of illustrated papyri.Nearly...

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History of Art

Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States

Read Richard, Haltman Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780932171696, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates

This volume of essays frames a comparative history of landscape painting in Australia and the United States through recent considerations of the Anthropocene, arguing that careful and deep analysis of specific nineteenth-century artworks reveals issu...

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Philosophy

Idea of Hegel's "Science of Logic"

Rosen Stanley

ISBN: PB: 9780226717647, ISBN: HB: 9780226065885, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Hegel considered "Science of Logic" essential to his philosophy, it has received scant commentary compared with the other three books he published in his lifetime. Here philosopher Stanley Rosen rescues the "Science of Logic" from obscurity,...

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Poetry

Against Heidegger

Rivera L. M.

ISBN: PB: 9781632430793, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Attachments to proper names, traditions, and entrenched thought formations are a perennial problem and, as L. M. Rivera shows, an addiction. "Against Heidegger" is a collection of poetic meditations on that pervasive, and possibly eternal, compulsion...

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Poetry

Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons Poems

Rogers Elizabeth Lindsey

ISBN: PB: 9781946724267, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, February 2020
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons" imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth's devastation from climate change and natural disaster. As humans begin to colonize the planet, history inevitably repeats itself. Dystopian and ecopoetic,...

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History

New Prometheans Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siecle

Raia Courtenay

ISBN: PB: 9780226635354, ISBN: HB: 9780226635217, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In a world increasingly shut in by the iron-clad determinism of Victorian physics, the Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882, tasked itself with finding scientific evidence for phenomena science had all but denied. The point was not to re...

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Criminology

Torture Letters Reckoning with Police Violence

Ralph Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9780226650098, ISBN: HB: 9780226490533, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens – and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission o...

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