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Philosophy

Cowley Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226267920, ISBN: HB: 9780226267890, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero – even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after Facebook post, about themselves. Literary theori...

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General

Peak Oil Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture

Schneider-Mayerson Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226285436, ISBN: HB: 9780226285269, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

In recent years, the concept of "peak oil" – the moment when global oil production peaks and a train of economic, social, and political catastrophes accompany its subsequent decline – has captured the imagination of a surprisingly large number of Ame...

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Public Health

Philosophy

Politics of Pain Medicine A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry

Graham S. Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226264059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line drawings, 2 tables

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new fiel...

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Europe

Parables of Coercion Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

Kimmel Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780226278285, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unl...

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Literary Criticism

Physics Envy American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After

Middleton Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226290003, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

At the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of both matter and mind. Following the overthrow of the Newtonian worl...

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Political Science

General

Political Peoplehood The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities

Smith Rogers M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285092, ISBN: HB: 9780226284934, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of "political peoples", a category that is much broader and mo...

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Anthropology

Peru: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto Rapid Biological and Social Inventories, Volume 26

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780982841945, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, September 2015
544 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates

The Cordillera Escalera mountain range on the Loreto-San Martin border in Amazonian Peru was barely known to scientists until the September 2013 expedition described in this report. Richly illustrated with twenty four color plates featuring more than...

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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Patty's Got a Gun Patricia Hearst in 1970s America

Graebner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226324326, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 17 halftones

It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army – who had kidnapped her a mere nine weeks earlier. Bu...

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Entomology

Planet of the Bugs Evolution and the Rise of Insects

Shaw Scott Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226325750, ISBN: HB: 9780226163611, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 31 halftones

Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth – and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw – millions and millions of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient...

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History of Art

Paul Klee The Visible and the Legible

Bourneuf Annie

ISBN: HB: 9780226091181, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
256 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 35 halftones

The fact that Paul Klee (1879-1940) consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. However, the questions it prompts have never been satisfactorily answered – un...

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