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Middle East

Freedom and Despair Notes from the South Hebron Hills

Shulman David

ISBN: PB: 9780226566658, ISBN: HB: 9780226566511, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Technology Critical History of a Concept

Schatzberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...

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Poetry

Coming Out of Nowhere Alaska Homestead Poems

Schandelmeier Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781602233607, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"The earth near our place/ was cradle, / it rocked us – /became our skin. / House doors opened, / spilled us out, /we disappeared into trees – /they clothed usin delirious green. /... We knew the song/ of this place, made it up, / sang it –" Homeste...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Becoming Political Spinoza's Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment

Skeaff Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226555478, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza's thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, "Becoming Politi...

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History of Art

Enchanted Islands Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226483108, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 43 halftones

In "Enchanted Islands", renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings...

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Poetry

Spill

Smith Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226570419, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

"There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil... It ruins everything you have ever saved". "Spill" is a...

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Music

Message to Our Folks The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Steinbeck Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226418094, ISBN: HB: 9780226375960, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique perf...

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Political Science

Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226566825, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible o...

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Europe

Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France

Schechter Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780226499574, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as "terroristic". But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In "A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France", Ronald Schechter tells the sto...

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Cartography

Map Men Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

Seegel Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226438498, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones

More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In "Map Men", Steven Seegel takes us through some of t...

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