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Architecture

Baroque Prague

Vlnas Vit

ISBN: PB: 9788024643762, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
330 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 200 colour plates, 20 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Baroque Prague" is a lavish excursion through Prague's important baroque period, beginning with the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and ending with the...

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Literary Criticism

Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle

van Schurman Anna Maria

ISBN: PB: 9781649590121, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
414 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones

Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As "the Star of Utrecht", she was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned scholars of her time. Known for her extensive learn...

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Philosophy

Apocalypse of Truth Heideggerian Meditations

Vioulac Jean

ISBN: HB: 9780226766737, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We inhabit a time of crisis – totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his main concern lies with how these phenomena all repr...

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Gender Studies

Sorting Sexualities Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification

Vogler Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226776767, ISBN: HB: 9780226769165, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with Contextual Materials

Vaughan Lock Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781649590008, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, April 2021
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 6 halftones

Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters' political-religious circle, maintained friend...

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Architecture

Choosing Architecture Criticism, History and Theory since the 19th Century

Van Gerrewey Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782889153299, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major subject of public discussion, considered and argued about not just by architects or residents, but also by critics, theoreticians, historians, and writers. This book offers an ov...

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Biography & Memoires

Jean-Pierre Vernant From the Maquis to the Polis

Vernant Jean-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780984201075, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
82 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007) was one of most important intellectual figures of modern France, well-known for his structuralist approach to Greek myth and tragedy. Taking the form of an interview with the notoriously private French classicist and a...

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Astronomy

Shaping Science Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226691084, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In "Shaping Science", Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to feature robotic expl...

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Psychology

General

Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague Causes, Contexts and Prospects

Vagnerova Marie, Csemy Ladislav, Marek Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024645254, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situa...

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America

Singer's Needle An Undisciplined History of Panama

Vierba Ezer

ISBN: PB: 9780226342450, ISBN: HB: 9780226342313, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved criti...

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