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Photography

Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316420, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2017
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour plates

In 2015, the "U. S. News & World Report" raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum "houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country".Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum" commemorates the museum's...

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Political Science

Secessionist Rule Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority

Smolnik Franziska

ISBN: PB: 9783593506296, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
425 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 3 maps, 7 tables

In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only parti...

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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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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

Bruno Giuliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226434636, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 24.7x22.8 cm, 80 colour plates, 6 halftones

What is the place of materiality – the expression or condition of physical substance – in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In "Surface", cultural critic and theori...

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Music

Sound Knowledge Music and Science in London, 1789-1851

Davies James Q., Lockhart Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226402079, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in...

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Biography & Memoires

Secret Life of a Black Aspie A Memoir

Prahlad Anand

ISBN: PB: 9781602233218, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story. For the first four years of his life, Prahlad didn't speak. But his silence didn't stop...

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America

Seward's Folly A New Look at the Alaska Purchase

Farrow Lee A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233034, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 maps

The Alaska Purchase – denounced at the time as "Seward's Folly" but now seen as a masterstroke – is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just...

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Mathematics

Studies in Weak Arithmetics Volume 3

Cegielski Patrick, Enayat Ali, Kossak Roman

ISBN: PB: 9781575869537, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists. This third volume in the weak arithmetics collection contains nine substantiv...

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Fiction

Summer of Caprice

Vancura Vladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...

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Ecology

Science, Conservation, and National Parks

Beissinger Steven R., Ackerly David D., Doremus Holly, Machlis Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226423005, ISBN: HB: 9780226422954, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 13 tables

As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitu...

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