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Law

Art Against the Law

Zorach Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780982879832, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, February 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

In 1968, Chicago made headlines for the ferocity of its police response to protesters at the Democratic National Convention, prompting outrage in the art world. Some artists pulled their shows from the city and called for a boycott until the mayor le...

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History of Art

Master of the Trebon Altarpiece

Royt Jan

ISBN: HB: 9788024622613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
330 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, 86 colour plates, 12 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his mo...

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Philosophy

Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes

Crangle Colleen E., Garcia de la Sienra Adolfo, Longino Helen E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867458, ISBN: HB: 9781575867441, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes has contributed significantly both to the sciences and to scientific philosophies. In this volume, an international group of Suppes's colleagues, collaborators, and students seeks to bui...

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Linguistics

Predicative Constructions From the Fregean to a Montagovian Treatment

Van Eynde Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781575868370, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There are multitudes of ways in which predicative constructions can be analyzed. In this book, Frank Van Eynde differentiates between the Fregean and Montagovian treatments of these constructions in order to better understand predicative construction...

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History

Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen Volume 1: On the Medical Sects for Beginners; The Small Art of Medicine; On the Elements According to the Opinion of Hippocrates. A Parallel English-Arabic Text

ISBN: HB: 9780842528405, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The second-century physician and philosopher Galen is not known for brevity. Although his writings on medicine are famously verbose and numerous, for centuries they constituted much of the standard syllabi for medical students. About fourteen hundred...

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Europe

Europeans Engaging the Atlantic Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800

Lachenicht Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9783593501703, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
185 pp., 21x13.9 cm

"Europeans Engaging the Atlantic" offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and on trade and commerce therewith. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans...

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History of Art

Multiples in Pre-Modern Art

Cupperi Walter

ISBN: HB: 9783037343746, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones

In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, however, replicas and multiples have c...

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Architecture

Plotting Gothic

Murray Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780226191805, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 36 halftones, 7 line drawings

A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear in presenting a new way of understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: as r...

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Political Science

Atlantic Divide in Antitrust An Examination of US and EU Competition Policy

Gifford Daniel J., Kudrle Robert T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226176109, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

How is it that two broadly similar systems of competition law have reached different results across a number of significant antitrust issues? While the United States and the European Union share a commitment to maintaining competition in the marketpl...

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Business & Economics

End of Cheap Labour? Industrial Transformation and "Social Upgrading" in China

Butollo Florian

ISBN: PB: 9783593501772, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
400 pp., 21x13.9 cm, 40 illus., 35 tables

The Chinese government and international observers argue that China's economy must overcome its excessive dependence on exports if substantial growth in domestic consumption is to be achieved and sustained in the future. But this shift can only occur...

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