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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Literary Criticism

Shimmering Beast

Reinke Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780945323211, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2012
120 pp., 18.3x11.7 cm

By turns funny and abstruse, "The Shimmering Beast" is the newest book by accomplished video artist Steve Reinke, which brings together his best pieces of prose. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essays, each chapter takes on another's work...

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Philosophy

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226026756, ISBN: HB: 9780226026749, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel the Politics, is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics – that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and...

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Architecture

Carson Pirie Scott Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store

Siry Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226761374, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
298 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 132 halftones

Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. The last large commercial structure designed by Louis Sullivan, the Carson building reflected the culmination of th...

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Literary Criticism

Norman Maclean Reader

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226500270, ISBN: HB: 9780226500263, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim – as well as the devotion of rea...

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Poetry

Locomotrix Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, a Bilingual Edition

Rosselli Amelia

ISBN: PB: 9780226728834, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
340 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research", Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist I...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Improvisation

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226662794, ISBN: HB: 9780226662787, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm

Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, "The Philosophy of Improvisation" ranges across the arts – from musi...

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Contemporary Art

Cosima von Bonin Character Appropriation

Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316338, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2012
48 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 27 colour illus.

Spanning a decade of its subject's multifaceted career, "Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation" features the Kenya-born, Germany-based artist's signature textile paintings, architectural sculptures, and absurdly outsized stuffed animals. In addit...

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Europe

Empire's Children Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

Saada Emmanuelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226733081, ISBN: HB: 9780226733074, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discove...

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Fiction

Blackbird A Grofield Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770420, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
192 pp., 20x13 cm

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake...

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