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Contemporary Art

Re: Chicago

Lincoln Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780978907433, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, February 2012
86 pp., 29.5x19.8 cm, 29 figures, 41 colour illus.

For over a century the Chicago art community has struggled to define itself in relation to other urban art centers. While prominent American artists past and present have had strong connections to Chicago, many left to make their reputations elsewher...

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Poetry

Rabbits Could Sing Poems

Thomas Amber Flora

ISBN: PB: 9781602231597, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
67 pp., 25x15 cm

The poems included in "The Rabbits Could Sing" delve farther into territory that Amber Flora Thomas visited in her prize-winning book "Eye of Water", showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress wil...

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Business & Economics

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850

Freeman Mark, Pearson Robin, Taylor James

ISBN: HB: 9780226261874, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 18 line illus.

Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their orig...

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Political Science

Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict

Atzili Boaz

ISBN: PB: 9780226031361, ISBN: HB: 9780226031354, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 halftones, 5 line illus.

Border fixity – the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory – has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relatio...

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Media Studies

Philosophy

Human Rights In Camera

Sliwinski Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780226762760, ISBN: HB: 9780226762753, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones

From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt's furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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Buddhism

Shots in the Dark Japan, Zen, and the West

Yamada Shoji

ISBN: PB: 9780226947655, ISBN: HB: 9780226947648, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen He...

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Literary Criticism

Lucretian Renaissance Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226648491, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
264 pp., 20.5x14 cm

With "The Lucretian Renaissance", Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of t...

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Decorative Arts

Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave

Molinski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780945323228, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2012
163 pp., 25.1x20.3 cm, throughout illus.

"Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind Weave" documents an exhibition of the same title organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art and visual artist Anne Wilson to investigate the global crisis of production and skill-based textile labor. This volume includes evoca...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Brintnall Kent L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...

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